The Devil Wears Prada and Networking
So I was watching "The Devil Wears Prada" and it got to the scene where Andy is told to get the newest unpublished Harry Potter book or lose her job. While there are a lot of things wrong with this setup, how Andy goes about solving her problem really reminded me of how networking is supposed to function. Earlier in the film Andy had been sent on an errand when during the event she ran into Christian Thompson a writer she respects. She had taken the time to introduce herself and connect with him. So she is freaking out over this impossible task and it occurs to her to call him. She clearly feels awkward about asking, but she does anyway. She has given up when he calls back and through his network actually managed to find the manuscript and can get it to Andy for an hour, allowing her to fulfill her impossible task for her boss and keep her job. This is a dramatized example, but it struck me as an interesting example of how networking functions and how it can h