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High-Trust Teams

Coaching Tip

In short, trust is a form of social capital that enhances performance between individuals, within and among groups, and in larger collectives, like organizations, institutions and nations. You didn't have to be the hero every day; someone would always step up and help the group succeed.

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Social Capital Is as Important as Financial Capital in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

But effective cooperation, particularly in a setting as complex as health care, requires more than a resolve to play well together; it requires leadership to explicitly recognize the need to build social capital across the organization, and implement a strategy accomplish it. Ultimately, the key to success is authenticity.

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Does Work Make You Happy? Evidence from the World Happiness Report

Harvard Business Review

We look primarily at how people evaluate the quality of their lives overall, something Gallup measures according to the Cantril Ladder , an 11-point scale where the top step is your best possible life and the bottom step is your worst possible life. Gallup then asks respondents to indicate which step they’re currently on.

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The Big Goal Behind All that Customer Data

Harvard Business Review

The most forward thinking companies are adopting some form of Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) to assess the value of customers to their bottom lines. And in today's increasingly networked, social-media-infused reality, that's missing a whole lot of customers who can generate value far beyond anything they buy.

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How Blockchain Will Accelerate Business Performance and Power the Smart Economy - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM MICROSOFT

Harvard Business Review

Political economist Francis Fukuyama predicted a future when social capital would be as important as physical capital, and that only those societies with a high degree of social trust would be able to create large-scale organizations capable of competing in the new economy. Empowered and Trusted Digital World.