Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2018

And perhaps consider getting a coach to help you make the improvements necessary to earn your manager’s advocacy. Seeking and applying your boss’s advice could potentially move them to advocate on your behalf. How to Manage a Toxic Employee. You and Your Team Series. Office Politics. Make Your Enemies Your Allies.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

The social capital embedded in these networks bolsters the acquisition of new skills through mentoring and coaching and can create the diversity of association which is so crucial to personal change and transformation. Interestingly, we found that being asked for advice was at its highest for those in their forties.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

This advice holds true at work as well. What would it look like if managers were as polite and nurturing to one another and their subordinates as they are to customers? To bring tending into the light, managers could assess tending across three dimensions: organizational, team, and peer. Social capital also counts.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

Hanging around there, you might come up with an idea for a product, then quickly prototype it at Tech Shop with advice and support from the larger community. Socialize your underused assets. Under the traditional logic of management, it would make sense to jealously guard the use of any productive assets a firm has invested in.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2011

This makes it all the more important that we know beforehand what the trade will be; asking someone to do something for you just-to-be-nice can deplete your social capital quickly. For example, when recent grads seek me out for advice, I almost always provide it and I don't charge.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2015

“Today, probably even more than ever before, networks are a key form of social capital for achieving goals in both your professional and personal lives.” Manage your existing connections. This is sound advice for both introverts and extroverts. “You need to know when you’re on the brink.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

When well-meaning people give advice to young women about how to get ahead, networking is almost always at the top of the list. A new study suggests that perhaps this network-your-way-to-the-top advice is, for women, a tad overblown. Talent management Gender Assessing performance Financial Services' What a wild idea.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The Republicans made clear that they did not want a seat at the table: They would succeed in scuttling the entire effort or, if Democrats managed to pass health care legislation, they would have their battle cry for future elections. The advice in this article is aimed at Democrats for the simple reason that they are the ones on the ropes.

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