Your work and income is vital to achieving financial freedom. What are you doing to ensure your career progression, or even to prevent yourself from losing your job?

After a decade spent slogging out in the corporate world, I've come to realise that it isn't what you know, but who you know.

The hard truth is that if you truly want to be successful, who you know might matter a lot more than what you know.



Here are some reasons why:
Think about it. If you have only one position and the choice boils down to 2 candidates - both of whom are equally qualified, but one of them happens to be the best friend of the boss' son - who do you think the job will go to? Your network is your net worth. Aside from my internship and first job when I graduated from college, I've never had to send in my...