(2021-08-04) Dawson If You Help Bring The Networks To Life You Will Create Success For Yourself

Ross Dawson: If you help bring the networks to life… you will create success for yourself. It is of course now abundantly clear that networks are the underlying structure of business and society.

Seminal social networks (in their pre-digital sense) pioneer Ron Burt proposed the term ‘structural holes’ to refer to the connections between people that did not exist but could create value.

In Living Networks I used the example of Napier Collyns, a co-founder of the highly influential scenario planning firm Global Business Network.

A slide in many of my keynotes read: If you help bring the networks to life… you will create success for yourself

By thinking primarily about connecting others, as a side product you will create immense value for yourself, by living and working in a richer, more connected network of people, ideas, and value creation.