You would think your "strong friends" or connections would be your most important asset. But Stanford University researcher Mark Granovetter has called out "the strength of weak ties" in research on how people find jobs. Weak ties bring new information. They are far more numerous. And they introduce a certain chaos into the equation, which is key to producing new opportunities and ideas.
From book, Who's Your City, by Richard Florida (and a excellent treatise on the trend toward 20M population cities!); http://creativeclass.com/whos_your_city/
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