What do you get if you've got a hell gigantic networks? or even you are in tons of networks. U know what networks i'm talking about. Friends in high school, friends in college, friends in uni, officemates, friends that plays sports with you, people you meet at the gym regularly. All this will turn into networks isn't it?
Hence, if you have got a great networking skills, will that make u a successful person?
I was just thinking about this randomly just now and the thought of it urged me to make a post about it. Well, i was thinking about it because one of my friends at uni just told me i knew her cousin who is currently in Tasmania. Well, i knew her from AFS, the organisation that sent me here, to Perth to do the exchange year in 2006. Then i remembered last year when I went to a the leadership camp with CBS Plus, i met a uni exchange girl from Switzerland who was an AFS returnees as well. There was also another case early this year about a guy asking me if i know this girl that was apparently his cousin that works in KPMG and coincidently i've heard quite a few stories about her from the gossip between my senior and my manager. i know, that was quite random but if u think about it. I think my world is getting smaller. Everyone knows everybody. Not to say about Tiffie and Ober as well. It's another case, I know Tiffie from Canning College and I know Ober through my sort of pet brother, Umai. Ober and Umai is kinda like in a band. Tiffie and Ober know each other as well.
haha.. that was starting to be a little bit random but u know what i mean right..
Back to the real topic now, one of a successful guy who i know to have a great networking skill is my dad. I think he got that skill from when he was caddying at the Golf Club behind his house back when he was very young. maybe around 8 years old. I idolize his skill so much. He has so many people that he knows and its so easy for him to sell his services because his friends will keep recomending him to his potential client. I wish I could be like him.
Not even that, I also has this Friend of mine who doesn't even have a commerce or econs degree but now has been given a chance to be in the financial planning industry. Yeah, he got that because he got some strings pulled for him. Imagine someone who is like really good but does not have or know the right people in whatever they are doing and then there is another person who is good as well but knows the right people. I think maybe the person who knows the right people will win it.
I think this post is quite long now, and I am actually suppose to do my studying. Just think about it people and maybe leave me a comment of what you think about my title. Does it actually help you succeed?
Til then,
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3 comments:
i have 2 different opinions about this.
i know for a fact that ppl with the right connections take the trophy. but then there are some ppl who are still pretty useless even with good connections.
for example, u know these ppl who have like 600 over friends on FB or friendster or myspace or whatever? a portion of them dont even know most the ppl on their list. they just add whomever randomly adds them even if they dont know them personally. or they just randomly add ppl to look popular, i dont know which lol.
and i *have* heard a case, where this guy has 400 over friends on FB, and he tells me this "i feel like deleting some ppl, but im not even sure if i know them or not but they seem to know me though. so i wont delete them cuz that will make me look bad if i DO delete them and if i really knew them but cant remember then it would make me look bad"
hmm... i think it doesnt matter how MUCH connections u have, but what matters is the QUALITY of those connections.
Well,
in my case it's more like connection to get into some industries then just in facebook. like this guy who is getting free inside education in financial planning without even having a degree in commerce or econs...
:(
that guy is just one lucky dude among millions of degree holders. =/
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