Network Beyond Bias: Seek Diverse Perspectives on Purpose
The following article is adapted from Amy Waninger’s book, Network Beyond Bias: Making Diversity a Competitive Advantage for Your Career . Is your professional network as diverse as the workforce and community around you? If not, you could be missing important opportunities for your career. We all face challenges in making meaningful connections, especially with people who differ from us in significant ways. Few of us consider the impacts of these missed opportunities. Even fewer know how to recognize and overcome them. Yet we must do so, urgently, if we are to compete, collaborate and create in the modern world. The old question for success was “What do you know?” In the information age, though, we all have access to Google. Knowledge has become a commodity and is taken for granted. What you should be asking yourself instead is “What you can do and who do you know?” In our global, social media-driven, freelancing economy, it has never been easier to get to know a wide