How could that idea not change the way you do business? Our influence over others, as the authors argue, may extend to only three degrees of separation, but that still means we have the ability to improve or worsen the condition of thousands of people. Therefore, we need to invest far more time and energy in building relationships inside and outside the workplace. We are who our friends say we are, and our success is as much a function of who’s around us as what’s in us. The surprising effect of social networks is that they give us less control over who we are and more control over others than we expect. So even as this excerpt from Connected, a new book by a pair of writer/professors who have studied social networks in depth, plumbs the limitations of the famous “six degrees of separation” effect, it reveals the influential power of our closer-in connections.
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