The internal feedback in the Coalition suggests Abbott is currently feeling out the landscape, working out where various people are, building bridges, trying to cultivate networks.
Universities can convene current top female leadership to develop leadership skills, and more importantly, cultivate networks through which role models can influence younger women.
Afghanistan's detention system does little to stem the spread of extremism among young people or adults, analysts say, and may actually harden those inside by allowing them to cultivate networks of like-minded individuals.
Cultivate a network of people that are willing to help, ask for their advice early and often, and remember to remind them how helpful they are to you.
Cultivate a network of extended talent and specialists: There are few things more frustrating than losing an exciting business opportunity because you are at capacity.
Cultivate a network of sources.
"We should start by changing our party: cultivating networks of supporters and civic society organisations and making it more of a force for progressive change in people's communities every day, not just every five years.
"In older age and retirement, this structure falls away and you have to be much more intentional about cultivating networks and activities to engage in".
Throughout my career, I have identified and engaged new opportunities by combining new and existing ideas, and cultivating networks of brilliant and creative minds in order to produce real solutions and lasting business value.
I think in the old program people were rewarded for being competitive and I don't think people are rewarded for that now - you're rewarded much more for being able to work across boundaries, across disciplines, with others, and for cultivating networks.
AMSs in those areas are continually cultivating networks of specialists whom they know are favourably disposed toward providing care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
