783. Expert-How Networks Actually Work, with David Burkus
Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love
Don Hutcheson
5.0 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
David Burkus is a best-selling author, a sought after speaker, and associate professor of leadership and innovation at Oral Roberts University. His newest book, Friend of a Friend, offers readers a new perspective on how to grow their networks and build key connections—one based on the science of human behavior, not rote networking advice. He shares some of his findings n this interview about how to use networking. He's delivered keynotes to the leaders of Fortune 500 companies and the future leaders of the United TED talk has been viewed over 1.9 million times.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, world, welcome to discover your talent, do what you love. |
| 0:14.9 | I'm your host, Don Hutchison. |
| 0:16.8 | Every Monday and Wednesday, I interview someone around the world who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. |
| 0:27.7 | On Fridays, I interview a well-known expert from the fields of personal or business development who share experiences, tools, and insights to help our listeners along their journeys. |
| 0:38.5 | I'm delighted to bring you our featured expert, David Burkis. Welcome, David. |
| 0:43.5 | Oh, thank you so much for having me. It is our pleasure. David Burkis is a best-selling author, |
| 0:49.3 | a sought-after speaker, an associate professor of leadership and innovation at Orwell Roberts |
| 0:54.0 | University. |
| 0:55.2 | His newest book, Friends of a Friend, offers readers a new perspective on how to grow their |
| 1:00.0 | networks and build key connections, one based on the science of human behavior, not wrote |
| 1:05.6 | networking advice. He's delivered keynotes to the leaders of Fortune 500 companies and the future leaders of the United States Naval Academy. |
| 1:13.5 | His TED Talk has been viewed over 1.9 million times, and he's a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review. |
| 1:19.6 | Well, David, congratulations on a stellar career. Today's topic couldn't be more timely. |
| 1:24.6 | How networks actually work. So take the stage and let's get going on this important chat. |
| 1:29.3 | Yeah, well, thank you. |
| 1:31.3 | So, I mean, I think at the core when people hear words like networking, a lot of people react like, |
| 1:37.3 | I mean, truthfully, a lot of people feel like networking is a four-letter word, right? |
| 1:41.3 | And it's, they feel like it's a dirty word. |
| 1:43.3 | And there's actually even some studies that show that networking makes us feel dirty. Asking people to think about a time when |
| 1:49.9 | they were involved in professional networking makes them more likely to have subconscious thoughts of |
| 1:54.2 | aspiring to get clean, which is another way of saying that it literally makes us feel dirty. |
| 1:58.2 | Wow, fascinating. I didn't know that. Yeah, no, it's a study by Francesca Gino and a number of her colleagues that literally primed people |
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