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Leading HR: Harnessing Social Power

LDRLB

Galbraith also wrote that “the long-term human resources role is to build social capital by creating richly connected interpersonal networks across the organization.” Millennials utilize technology with ease, and regularly engage and connect with their social networks.

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Job Hunting Success Tips

Coaching Tip

Acquaintances, in short, represent a source of social capital, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are. . Sources: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, June 14, 2012 and. People weren't getting their jobs through their friends. They were getting them through their acquaintances. .

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Leading HR: Harnessing Social Power

LDRLB

Galbraith also wrote that “the long-term human resources role is to build social capital by creating richly connected interpersonal networks across the organization.” Millennials utilize technology with ease, and regularly engage and connect with their social networks.

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Work Together or Fail Alone

Coaching Tip

Jonah Lehrer's article, "GroupThink" in The New Yorker , January 30, 2012 states that brainstorming seems like an ideal technique, a feel-good way to boost productivity. But there is a problem with brainstorming. It doesn't work. Scientific advances have lead to a situation where all the remaining problems are incredibly hard.

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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). Here, the 2012 Index sheds light. It reveals a marked decline in Social Capital across the Middle East and North Africa.

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Accountants Will Save the World

Harvard Business Review

We were building social capital, but we didn't have a way to tell our shareholders — or be held accountable to keep doing it. This post is based partly on a speech Peter Bakker gave at The Prince's Accounting for Sustainability Forum on December 13, 2012. There is no doubt we benefited from this.

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Don’t Write Off the (Western) Focused Firm Yet

Harvard Business Review

Finally, when you are at the conglomerate stage, they relate to social capital, as you move talent across internal boundaries and leverage personal relations with politicians, government officials, investors and other external parties who can greatly facilitate or obstruct your plans–not necessarily with the greater good in mind.