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The Importance Of Place For Entrepreneurship

The Horizons Tracker

It’s widely accepted that entrepreneurship is vital for economic vitality both in terms of the new innovations that come to market and the jobs that are created. Location plays such a fundamental role because so much of our social capital is location specific. Social capital. Supporting ambitions.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Innovation Capital. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. That’s why I enjoyed talking with Jeff Dyer who, along with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, wrote a new book, Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Innovative Leaders.

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What Does Your Network Look Like?

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Recently, Jason texted me the title of a conference session he was sitting in—Social Capital: Using ONA to Unleash Potential Across an Organization. The org chart doesn’t tell us how information moves through an organization, who influences who, who trusts who, etc. Image courtesy SMR Foundation.

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Talking with Each Other @ Work

Coaching Tip

For example, Amazon , a company with about $75 billion in annual revenue and a $140 billion market value, relies on metrics like continually rooting out inefficiencies and, with a few well-known peculiarities like "desks with repurposed doors," underights cost effectiveness and abhors “social cohesion."

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The Law of Reciprocity

Coaching Tip

This ''law of love'' is identified in many different ways--for example, in Wayne Baker''s bestseller, " Achieving Success Through Social Capital " , this law of love in the workplace is described as the "law of reciprocity.". Acts of contribution, big and small, build your fund of social capital, creating a vast network of reciprocity.

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All Work in Done Through Relationships

Coaching Tip

who obtains information from whom), influence networks (i.e., who influences whom), and positive-energy networks (i.e., who energizes whom) revealed that a person’s position in the energy network is far more predictive of success than her or his position in information or influence networks (Baker, 2004). Related articles.

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Building Relationships Across Cultures In Today’s World

Tanveer Naseer

Developing these networks—and the influence that they afford—is critical to success. In many parts of China –– the art of networking in business revolves around a system of building social capital known as guanxi (gwan-shee).

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