Ever switched jobs to go work in a new industry and it took you forever to learn the niche lingo? Did such an experience make you feel excluded like an outsider? Conversely, ever worked within an ecosphere that saw itself as superior to others outside that industry? If so, then you fell into a network structure gap with communication and identity holes.
Ron Burt and Giuseppe Soda’s just published study highlights, in part, how professionals can profit from brokering between groups. Humans tend to cluster into cliques, factions, and units because of needed collaboration to accomplish tasks.
