LinkedIn should become the perfect site for cementing weak ties that create those new business opportunities.
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The reality though is we all need new ways to convert weak ties into business.
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This creates those valuable weak ties that help us create an environment of greater serendipity for ourselves.
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Whether that could reinvigorate the weak ties in society along with the strong ties remains to be seen.
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Understanding the balance between strong and weak ties may well unlock the future of online content and online advertising.
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There is strength in weak ties, as the sociologist Mark Granovetter has observed.
Unless you show them the same Twitter-frequent love they have for their pet brand, your weak ties will not bind them.
As a result, people with more weak ties typically spend less time searching for employment and end up with higher-quality jobs.
It will come into its own even more if it extends our capacity to develop our non-existent ties and our weak ties.
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In my experience it does little to help you develop weak ties and it does nothing to introduce you to people you do not know.
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Shortly after, The New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell proclaimed that " the revolution would not be tweeted" because the Internet's "weak ties seldom lead to high-risk activism, " which is needed in order to spur real change.
Technical term: converting weak ties into strong.
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And as the economy becomes more fragmented and as old industry and old enterprises decline, a more fluid form of enterprise operating system will thrive only if we skill-up in the business of developing and capitalising on weak ties.
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The farmer, who sported a bright gold wristwatch that signifies inordinate wealth (and sometimes indicates Taliban ties), retorted the ministry was "weak, " so the American "friends" needed to do it.
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Other items of value include its billing relationship with 132 carriers, and a developer community with ties into emerging markets, where Microsoft is relatively weak.
And Oregon has a weak social structure, with many recent immigrants who lack the family and community ties to weather hard times.
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For quite a few Christian churches, ties to the state are a vital crutch, without which they would be jaded and weak.
The prospect that one country might break its ties to the euro, voluntarily or not, would cause widespread bank runs in other weak economies.
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