The invisible planet

A little bit of crowing (again). About twenty years ago, an editor at Routledge & Kegan Paul, the British publisher, asked if we'd consider doing a more "global" version of our book, Networking, which had come out a few years earlier. We agreed and, in the process of the revision, we changed the theme of the book from "Another America," where we examined non-institutional networks working on a variety of issues principally in the US to "the Invisible Planet," which extended the same idea to the multinational setting. Eventually, this book was published in the US by Viking Penguin as The Networking Book and translated into Portuguese and published in Brazil for the 1992 Earth Summit. Last week, I received this nice note from a reader who'd found me on LinkedIn. It's affirming to know that work done so many years ago still reaches people. Thanks, VA, for this lovely note - and what a great idea to republish this book as an eBook. Let me add that to the list.

Hello Jessica,

First thank you for adding me into your network. It is an honor to connect with one of the leading pioneers (oxy-moron?) of the networking universe.

I am back into reading a classic book once again, The Networking Book...I wish that it can be reprinted or offered as an Ebook, so people don't take the Networking tools available today, like Linkedin for granted.

The evolution is more than astonishing..and you have clearly displayed through your words in this valuable book. While many lines in the book resonate with me, one hit the core and you expressed so eloquently: 'There is nothing to conquer on the Invisible Planet: there are only problems to solve, using personal resourcefulness as the provider of solutions...'

I just wanted to share that with you..for it confirms my path and the  venture that I am so vehemently involved.

Continue with your pioneering or lead the way. Looking forward to connecting with you at the levels necessary to elevate the Invisible Planet where it needs to be.

Respectfully,
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Comments

[maryanne stahl]

how cool and rewarding. brava, Jessica!