The more diverse (hetrophilous) you make your network the greater the network will become in terms of diversity that flows through it. Your weak-ties should come from all paths of life, different countries, cities, sexuality, gender, class, intellect etc. This is to avoid groupthink which is how friends, associates and networks who know each other intimately begin to think alike; this limits their capacity to explore alternative attitude, views and ideas.
When creating my networks I need to develop strong weak-ties with a high level of diversity in order to optimise performance and output.
Image: John Flood's Random Academic Thoughts (RATs): Diversity in the Legal Profession?. 2012. [ONLINE] Available at:http://johnflood.blogspot.com/2010/09/diversity-in-legal-profession.html. [Accessed 09 February 2012].
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