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Great Careers May Require a Team: How to Create Opportunity Through Connection | LinkedIn

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Not to date myself, but when I first started working, I had to attend networking events (in-person), hand out business cards, and use a Rolodex (yep… I’m THAT old) to keep my contacts and people in my network organized. I would meet people and write a detail about the conversation on the back of the

Not to date myself, but when I first started working, I had to attend networking events (in-person), hand out business cards, and use a Rolodex (yep… I’m THAT old) to keep my contacts and people in my network organized. I would meet people and write a detail about the conversation on the back of their business cards so I’d have something interesting to say when I reached out to them a week or so later. I knew my network was small–and homogenous (but more on that later), so I over-indexed on engagement to add people to my professional community, my “TEAM DREW CREW.” Fast forward 20 years and di

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