Global-E Networking was created to facilitate student learning and introductions with business leaders.
- Philip McMaster, Chairman, Reseautage Global-E Networking
Go To:Global-E
There is a a great piece by Phil Agre at UCLA about how to become a leader in your profession. It's targeted at students in professional schools (med school, law school, business school, etc.), so it is very much about how to make a name for yourself even when you're first starting out.
Many of these strategies are applicable online. I post it in particular because many people have the mistaken idea that becoming "slightly famous" is something that only freelancers, authors, speakers, etc., should do.
But as Agre points out:
"A profession is more than a job -- it is a community and a culture. Professions serve society by pooling knowledge among their members and creating incentives to synthesize new knowledge. They also help their members to build networks, find jobs, recruit staff, find collaborators, and organize around the issues that affect them."
In summary, his strategy is:
1. Pick an issue.
2. Start a project to study it.
3. Find relevant people and talk to them.
4. Pull together what you've heard.
5. Circulate the result.
6. Build on your work.
As a professional, here's no hiding from leadership...
"In a knowledge-intensive world of ceaseless innovation and change, I assert, every professional must be a leader. This is not a universally popular idea. Some people say, "leadership is fine for others, but I just want a job". I want to argue that it doesn't work that way. The skills that the leader exercises in building a critical mass of opinion around emerging issues are the same skills that every professional needs to stay employed at all. In the old days the leadership-averse could hide out in bureaucracies. But as institutions are turned inside out by technology, globalization, and rising public and client expectations of every sort, the refuges are disappearing. Every professional's job is now the front lines, and the skills of leadership must become central to everyone's conception of themselves as a professional."
- Phil Agre
Go to: How to be a leader in your field
Thanks to: Scott Allen in Online Business Networking Tips
via weblog of Duke Rohe via Renee Watase
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Business Leaders, & the Réseautage Global-E Networking Wall
Alain Batty - FORD Abraham Zaleznik - HARVARD Don Tapscott - HYPERNET Images of the Reseautage "Global-E" Networking wall in the Salon National at HEC Montreal - The twin towers The twin towers Close-up detail of the photo panels.
Gerry Faustino, (MBA 2002) surveys the Networking Wall
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Isabelle and Chantale at the Global-E Networking Wall
Philip, "Joe", Moez, Alex, Clarissa, Fred, Elizabeth, Naseem, and Raphael at the Global-E wall. Leaders and Presidents of of student associations Frederic, Professor Alain Rondeau, Elizabeth and Philip at Global-E wall association presidents sign the Global-E declaration Reseautage Global-E Networking Wall and presidents of HEC Student Association HEC Student Services Director Suzanne Gervais and Global-E founder, Philip McMaster Networking Towers in the distance. (Salon National - HEC Montreal)
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GREAT NEWS IN 2004 - HEC Montréal Boasts 10th Place in BusinessWeek's
2004 International Ranking (That's the WHOLE world!)
HEC Montréal at a glance: First North American school to hold the three accreditations AACSB international, EQUIS and AMBA. MBA program accredited by the Association of MBAs (UK), offered in English and French, with over 55% international students. Rated as one of the top 100 in the world by the Wall Street Journal in the 2004 edition of the Guide to the Top Buiness Schools and one of the 18 best MBA programs outside the United States, according to the MBA 2002 classification by BusinessWeek. http://www.hec.ca
