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Becoming a Network Linchpin

Coaching Tip

The best leaders build the ‘social capital’ of their organizations,” says Dr. Wayne Baker, author of Achieving Success Through Social Capital (Jossey-Bass, 2000). Sources: CIO Magazine, February 1, 2011 and " Turning Heads: Six ingredients to becoming an employer of choice " by John G.

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Marketing Is Dead

Harvard Business Review

Help them build social capital. The new marketing helps its advocates and influencers create social capital: it helps them build their affiliation networks, increase their reputation and gives them access to new knowledge — all of which your customer influencers crave. Second, CEOs have lost all patience.

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Beyond GDP, How the World's Economies Stack Up

Harvard Business Review

Today, the Legatum Institute releases its 2011 Index, and we were eager to know what might have changed. Very few countries see declines in their overall score but Italy is one of them, with a drop in its performance on the Governance and Social Capital sub-indices. Unfortunately data on this is not available globally.

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