Dick van Vlooten is founder and owner of di Cuore, an institute that studies the art of doing business from the heart. Networking is one of his major fields of interest. Dick has trained businesspeople, students, and entrepreneurs in the art of networking. He shares his insights in a series of articles for Next Wave. Cutting the Gender Scissors - 11 February 2005 More men end up in higher positio...
I have a confession to make. I am not a Natural Born Networker. I didn't become chairman of the board of the fraternity of the University of Leiden or Delft ( the places to study in the Netherlands). I haven't played hockey since the age of 3, or any age for that matter. I've never lived in Wassenaar, the Dutch home of the rich and famous. And for a very long time I really disliked all the typica...
INDEX OF ARTICLES Women are good scientists and good networkers. Good networking capacity is important in science. Yet only a few women in science ever make it to professor. Science's Next Wave has published a lot on the women-in-science issue. We've even dedicated a whole index page to the subject. Each of these articles uses a different approach, but they've all come to a common observation: th...
Editor's note: Networking need not be a mystery, and understanding how it works usually makes finding a job much easier. Networking expert Dick van Vlooten, founder and owner of di Cuore, an institute that does research on the art of doing "business from the heart," has been training businesspeople, students, and entrepreneurs in the art of networking for 4 years, as well as publishing sociologic...
INDEX OF ARTICLES "The fit get rich." It was these four words that made all the difference to me. I read them in Albert-Laszlo Barabási's book Linked,1 and I knew it right away: This was the final piece to complete the jigsaw puzzle. In this article I will share with you several of the concepts that play a decisive role in the puzzle of networking. Read them carefully and you will find that you r...
INDEX OF ARTICLES Ever been to a reception following a talk or a meeting and felt it was a dreadful display of people begging to each other while pretending to be best friends? To be fair, most of the people present were probably friends. But, during these gatherings people too often forget about the seventh law of networking: the paradox of profit. In other words, the fact is you have to give fi...
INDEX OF ARTICLES "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" [asked Alice]"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat."I don't much care where--" said Alice."Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat."--so long as I get SOMEWHERE," Alice added as an explanation."Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough." Ex...
