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Daniel Gibson Culture of Health Leader Fellow, 2018 What is YOUR Network of Influence? Today I want to talk about the idea of “Networks.” Who is in your network? Who are the people you connect to? What are the ideas that you stand for? And how do you connect your network of people, identities and resources, to the things that matter most to you? I just read Joshua Cooper Ramo’s book, The Seventh Sense, where he poses a theory – it is the people, places and things we connect to that define us. More importantly, it is the network of people, places and things that we associate with that impact our lives and our world. In a time when a reality show celebrity is sitting in the White House (regardless of your political leanings) you have to believe that there is something quite powerful when you can connect your message to a larger network. Ramo’s suggests that today, power moves in networks. And only networks can defeat other networks. The hierarchical paradigm of p