Building Bridges

 

Some people say “its not what you know, its who you know” and they speak with truth. One of the ideas from my Ralph Katz class during IAP had me thinking about this topic and it makes a lot of sense to share with you and that is the importance of building bridges.

Everybody wants to build their powerful tower (figuratively speaking) but they forget about the bridges. The illustration speaks about having a lot of powerful towers that are not connected and as a whole is less useful than a set of towers that is connected with bridges. The interconnected towers form a system that is larger than any of the other towers (individually) and more importantly the bridges provide the means of carrying information, goods, news from one tower to all the others. We can apply this concept in business as in life. Most of the time you can get more done by relying on the bridges you have built than in your tower.

We don’t need to rely on ourselves all the time to come up with the answers. It is highly likely someone knows the answer to your problem or has expertise in that area. People with good communication skills and networking skills often leverage their connections to accomplish what on their own would be impossible. So remember, build bridges not towers.

 

Blog Trouble

 

Ok, so I have not written anything in a while and I had some blog trouble. I was trying to setup my MIT domain blog but I can´t format it so I will keep using this blog instead. It´s too bad I am not located on campus otherwise I could ask someone there how to do it. It also was a shame that since I am a distance student I could not attend the workshop to help set up the MIT domain blog.

Anyway, summer was busy with lot´s of work and as for school; well courses are a little more intense than in spring since there is only 3 months in the summer term instead of 4 like in Spring and Fall. I had some very cool experiences this summer, some of which will be the topics of the upcoming blog entries I am going to make.

Also, I am getting prepared for the Fall term. I am reviewing Ed Crawley´s material from the IAP sessions because that class resumes in the Fall and I need a refresh of the material and key concepts. I have been working on my principles list for this class. We were assigned to create a list of personalized principles we would use for designing architecture so we would have a personal tool set we can apply to system design when the course is over. Some of these principles and my thoughts on them will also be subject of future posts.

So this entry is really to inform my desire to keep blogging and resume where I had left off. It can get difficult sometimes with so much work and school and also in this case the summer (can´t blame me for wanting to go out and being active instead of sitting in front of my computer). So I will keep my readers posted  bye for now…