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Michael Thompson

Michael Thompson is a career coach, lecturer at EAE Business School in Barcelona, Spain, and the author of Shy by Design.

A person with short brown hair and a slight smile, wearing a gray shirt and a dark sweater, is facing the camera indoors.

An open book with abstract designs: the left page displays a horizontal row of color blocks, while the right page features a hand touching a network of connected circles, highlighting strong connections.

Why our “weak-tie” connections are actually super-strong

Sure, “who you know” matters — but your best contacts will be the ones you don’t know very well.