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Real Dysfunction Today, Hidden in Plain Sight

Michael Lee Stallard

We are sorely deficient of what I refer to as connection (also known as community, social capital, belonging or meaningful relationships). They sense that something is wrong although though they don’t understand why. The problem today is hidden in plain sight. How did we get to this state? why is everyone smiling?

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Social media summit

Lead on Purpose

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Job Search and Person-to-Person Networking

Coaching Tip

The formula for success = your human capital (what you know and can do) times your social capital (who you know and who knows you) times your reputation (who trusts you). Baker: Achieving Success Through Social Capital: Tapping Hidden Resources in Your Personal and Business Networks. Networking. Advertisement.

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Where Does Your Nation Rank on Wellbeing?

Harvard Business Review

Personal Freedom (individual freedom and social tolerance). Social Capital (social cohesion and engagement, as well as community and family networks). It reveals a marked decline in Social Capital across the Middle East and North Africa. Safety & Security (national security and personal safety).

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Why “Network More” Is Bad Advice for Women

Harvard Business Review

candidate at the school, focuses on 1,815 Wall Street analysts, their school ties, and their forecasts and recommendations between 1993 and 2009. And although there are benefits to social capital, as Fang and Huang’s study makes clear, rewarding the people with the chummiest network simply creates a self-fulfilling cycle.

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New Report Highlights The Rise In Global Prosperity

The Horizons Tracker

The rosy picture continues with signs that the global investment slump we experienced between 2009 and 2014 has ended, with this joined by strengthened property rights, investor protections and contract enforcement. There is a fundamental relationship between strengthening institutions and broader economic and social development.

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