Well, it had to happen!
Microsoft did a study of 30 Billion (yes, "B"as in "Billion") electronic conversations involving 180 million people worldwide during an entire month and then ran the numbers. The result is a a corroboration of the "Six Degrees of Separation" theory that says that everyone is connected to everyone else on the planet by no more than 6 connecting points.
Well, sort of. The actual number that Microsoft came up with was 6.6 degrees of separation. And that makes for a pretty flat world considering we are 6.7 billion people and counting. Is your organization as flat as the world is?
If that's true, what does it say about how necessary I am for anybody to connect to anybody else? What makes them choose me over any other available connection point? How much time should I spend on developing my networking skills?
Check out the links: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10005553-16.html; http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080103718.html
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