Wednesday, October 3, 2007

The Strength of Weak Ties

No I'm not talking about a badly knotted four-in-hand...
What a wonderful world we live in, where a Harvard Business School professor can blog about the impact of weaker social links on business productivity The Ties That Find and link to a superb and hugely influential paper on The Strength of Weak Ties from 1973!
So maybe it's the fostering of weaker ties in a community that brings the greater benefit. Part of that good feeling of people in a neighborhood saying "Good Morning" as one walks by :)
...or maybe I've just been watching too many Frank Capra movies recently...

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