Invisible Bridges is one of the boks in the list by UCLA Anderson School of Management faculty. I found about it on the Anderson website, that section with the list of books by their faculty, found here: https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-authors . I ordered this book on Amazon or the UCLA library, I am not sure right now, but I only started reading it when I realized that Prof. Ullmen also taught at the UCLA Anderson Executive Education, where I was working last year. I ran one of his sessions as Program Manager on zoom, that was when I got familiar with the topic he taught on communications and networking and leadership, that is why I decided to give a try to this book.
I was surprised when I started reading the book and I noticed that it was written in a "fabule" format, with speaking animals living and thinking as humans. It is about a beaver I guess who needs to cut a big tree to stop the river or build a bridge to cross the river and run awat from a fire. The beaver had many animal friends, like an eagle, a rabbit, horse, etc, and he only met them because he had a dream to fly, so he started asking the animals around who could help him fly. That was how he ended up making many friends, who helped him build the bridge to rn away from the fire and save all the animals.
The moral of the story is about networking. Networking is not only about selling yourself and finding jobs. For me, networking is about making friends. introducing people to other people so they can also have more friends and benefit from a large circle of friends. Because only your friends will truly be available for you when you need. It doesn't need to be on a personal level, but professional, but still, people on your network should not only be names on a list or "weak and strong laces" but true friends that you will be willing to help with something and that can help you and you need.
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