Making Connections. Intermediate Teacher's Manual: A Strategic Approach to Academic Reading and Vocabulary

But Jordan has made himself so valuableБЂ”so covetedБЂ”to so many employers that he actually works for several at onceБЂ”and none of them seem to mind his vocational polygamy. Along the way, Jordan has become one of Washington's most networked individuals, a man w h o seems to have friends and influence in every quarter and province. He's connected Lou Gerstner with IBM. He approached Colin Powell about replacing Warren Christopher as Secretary of State. He helped James Wolfensohn become President of the World Bank. How has he done it? Jordan has used social arbitrage to make himself indispensableБЂ”he is, in every sense of the w o r d , a modern-day power broker. But he wasn't always at the vortex of everything that happens in Washington. He didn't even live full-time in Washington until Akin Gump hired him in 1 9 8 2 . By the time he arrived there, he'd done enough in his careerБЂ”having built up several decades of contacts made and favors doneБЂ”to know that, before long, he'd become a man of influence in his new town ...»