Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

The bottom line is, aside from your method of choice, how you say things is as important as what you say, particularly when it comes to building social capital. What is social capital and why is it important? If they scowl at your email, text or call, your social capital is low. What is social capital?

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Career Advancement

MARCH 20, 2017

“Leadership is intentional influence.” 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.

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 21, 2012

Attractive communication creates lasting personal and professional relationships, leads to cooperative resolutions and, ultimately, greater happiness. The path to reciprocity is indirect: reciprocity ensues from the social capital built by making contributions to others. We communicate in our personal and business lives.

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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. .

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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).

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Coaching Tip

MAY 17, 2012

Leadership is a conversation. It isn’t the ability to fiercely compete, but the ability to lovingly cooperate that will determine success. The new currency isn’t intellectual capital. It is social capital –the collective value of who we know and what we’ll do for each other. It’s a dialogue, not a monologue.

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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.

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