Rosalind Chow and Kelly Leonard on the Second City Works podcast talk about her new book: The Doors You Can Open: A New Way to Network, Build Trust, and Use Your Influence to Create a More Inclusive Workplace. She says a lot about Mentoring and Sponsoring (recommending someone into a job or a gig or a place), and also status
You get status when you care more about others than you do yourself.
To get status start caring about others.
Gossip is about trust – it saves me finding out someone is not trustworthy.
There’s also good gossip.
Worth a listen if you’re trying to boost diversity, or if you’re trying to get in from the “outside” of the inner circle.
And tangentially related, this Kelly Leonard podcast with Steve Magness who wrote From Whistleblowing to Winning says
The “in-between” times are when we build ties
Steve Magness
so it’s important to have “in-between” times at conferences, offsites, days in the office.
And an interesting fact: 80% of cookbook writers write only one book. An even smaller percentage if they received awards or recognition for their first book – is it the pressure of having to “as well”?
