Sometimes these posts come out of nowhere. And they launch series.
I was discussing social capital on Twitter, as best one can at 140 characters a post while taking a walk, and one thing led to another. Someone brought up why networking wasn’t preached enough (which is the subject of this post) and I realized it’s time to discuss why we’re bad at networking in the first place.
True it may not be “us we” that’s bad, but an amazing amount of people kind of are bad at it. Worse there’s no excuse for it as we have the tools, technology, information, and we’re naturally social creatures. If someone can use Facebook to declare their love of beer pong, they can network (as long as they remember to take down the beer pong stuff, seriously people).
So why is it some of us are just so bad at it? Especially as so many people talk about it?