In other types of social experiences such as a social network of relationships, knowing who is in that network is whole point.

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They found that teamwork requires people to navigate and build a complex network of relationships.

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The game in this case is about building a network of productive relationships.

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Besides a curated network of relationships, organizations also provide excellent opportunities to give back, mentor others, and find resources to help businesses succeed.

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The U.S. needs to build a similar network of relationships and institutional linkages that we built in postwar Europe and Japan and deepened in the trilateral years.

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While diminishing patient options, the single entry to a portal also diminishes the ability of the hospital to build the relationships with a network of outside providers and patients who are so critical to improving care, and ultimately, bringing more patients to the hospital.

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For corporate America, this could easily become a model of social investment, eclipsing traditional corporate philanthropy in favor of a muscular social investment that is built on a complex and financially beneficial network of relationships between government, nonprofit organizations and corporations.

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This new learning approach predicates on the idea that people are now starting to learn a whole lot more from their network of relationships and sources on their own while on the job, than they do from formal training and education.

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