Strong Ties
Deep trust, fast execution, emotional support, and durable collaboration when the work is complex or high stakes.
MyWeakTies
The relationships just outside your inner circle often create the next opening.
MyWeakTies is Sarah's community platform for Wharton EMBA alumni and other executive peers who want to be more intentional about strategic networking, opportunity flow, and the balance between strong ties and weak ties.
The Phenomenon
Weak ties are not weak because they do not matter.
Strong ties are the relationships we rely on for trust, execution, support, and deep collaboration. Weak ties are looser connections: classmates, former colleagues, second-degree contacts, industry peers, and people we know well enough to recognize but not always well enough to call close. Their power is reach. They connect us to information, opportunities, perspectives, and communities outside our usual circle.
Why It Matters
Opportunity often travels through bridges, not clusters.
Weak Ties
Fresh information, unexpected openings, new markets, unfamiliar perspectives, and introductions beyond the immediate circle.
Strategic Balance
The goal is not to replace close relationships. It is to maintain enough network range that new ideas and opportunities can find you.
Sarah's Angle
Networks are part of the operating system of work.
The weak-ties idea is especially relevant in an AI-enabled economy. As work becomes more fluid, and as leaders manage teams made up of people, AI-enabled professionals, and agents, access to varied judgment matters. MyWeakTies is about making those bridges easier to see, maintain, and activate before the moment you need them.
Community
Built for intentional executive connection.
MyWeakTies currently centers on the Wharton EMBA 49 community and the broader idea that alumni networks become more valuable when members can strengthen both close relationships and lighter-touch professional ties. It is a place to turn network potential into actual conversations, introductions, and opportunity.
Source Note
The classic idea behind the name.
The phrase draws from sociologist Mark Granovetter's 1973 paper, "The Strength of Weak Ties", which helped explain why looser social connections can be powerful channels for information, mobility, and opportunity.