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Employee Network
Intelligence
Bringing the World into
Your Company
The old lifetime employment model encouraged both
managers and employees to look inward. Managers
focused on making employees more effi cient at fulfi ll-
ing their job description, while employees focused on
enhancing their position within the company hierar-
chy. But once that model began breaking down, that
inward focus became self- defeating self- absorption.
Today, as we’ve discussed, both company and em-
ployee need to look outward toward the overall en-
vironment in which they operate, especially when it
comes to networks. Companies have to understand
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