Career Advancement

MARCH 20, 2017

A strong influencer is able to create partnerships across all business units, thereby developing a wider base of support and cooperation. Successful influencers cultivate alliances with people across the company who are in positions of leadership or who have strong social capital. Leverage allies.

Influence 196

Influence Strategy Social Capital Bottom-up 196

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 4, 2019

To try and assess just how common each of these types of broker are in the workplace, the team developed a number of experiments to explore how many of each there are in the workplace, and indeed, how much of our own time we spend in each role, for indeed some of us do perform each during the course of our working week.

Social Capital 64

Social Capital Influence Bond Cooper 64

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

That’s changing fast, of course, as providers are finding that cooperation is as critical to caregiving as cutting edge tests and therapeutics. Our full article describing social capital, its roles in health care, and strategies for building it in health care organizations is available here (PDF).

Social Capital 8

Social Capital Health Care Cooper Storytelling 8

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Like all social animals, human beings have an instinctive need to cooperate and rely on each other to satisfy their most basic emotional, psychological, and material needs. The powerful effect of trust is that it enables cooperative behavior without costly and cumbersome monitoring and contracting. .

Team 129

Team Team Building Cooper Bottom-up 129

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Last June, I raised a few eyebrows when I told attendees at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio (aka Rio+20 ) that "accountants would save the world." We were building social capital, but we didn't have a way to tell our shareholders — or be held accountable to keep doing it. But I meant it.

Social Capital 12

Social Capital Report Finance Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

This post is part of a three-week series exploring the re-invention of the social infrastructure of cities, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. We created a network and trained the community to take advantage of all these assets, turning them into social capital.

Social Capital 13

Social Capital Education Human Capital Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

executives feel that they do not generally seem to have the kind of social capital that would cushion against a big sociopolitical backlash. A 2013 Pew Research survey found that business executives ranked ninth out of 10 professions in terms of social contribution, only placing ahead of lawyers. Perhaps U.S.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8