How do you find the right balance between working hard and networking with colleagues?
You'll also need to work hard at networking and building relationships".
The aim is to fit in by saying the right things, not to challenge the received wisdom.The third principle is that you need to work hard at networking.
The truth is, big breaks don't just happen; people make them happen through hard work, networking, courage, passion and even pain.
The easiest way to understand this is to think of renting these resources (servers, hard drives, networking gear) from companies like Dropbox, Google, Amazon and Microsoft that maintain them in their own data centers, instead of owning them.
Going forward, Discoverly will work to integrate other social networks into the widget, even expanding its use case beyond the hard-core "networking" crowd to allow for things like seeing a friend's last photo posted to a photo-sharing site, like Instagram, for instance.
Does this all sound a hell of a lot harder than networking?
And, man, you have never seen a company try so hard to make networking easy.
The hard work of networking early on in a college career, wisely chosen internships, using summers well (which too few students do) and other positioning activities greatly enhance the chance of a good job after graduation.
But what the 58-year-old principal of Runshaw College, in Lancashire, really turns on its head is the notion that in education it's not enough to do a job well to pick up a top gong - that you've got to make a noise by getting on to this national committee or that quango and networking hard.
