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Managing a Successful Career

Coaching Tip

your intentions are to manage a successful career. Professor Wayne Baker in his book, "Achieving Success through Social Capital: Tapping Hidden Resources in Your Personal and Business Networks" says, "There is deeply rooted myth in North American culture that shapes our behavior. Let's not waste another minute.if

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How to Build and Repair Your Reputation

Skip Prichard

Do you consider your personal brand ? Building something as important as your personal brand and reputation requires the same attention you would give any crucial career asset.” Authentic personal brands have almost a magical quality to them.” What are some of the hallmarks of an authentic personal brand?

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Influencers Wanted

Coaching Tip

Creating unique brand-related experiences that the influencer will then report on to peers communicates your competitive advantage. When Doing It All Won''t Do: A Self-Coaching Guide for Career Women. . For example, influencers are people whose opinions may cause important customers to stay loyal, and even spend additional dollars.

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Unilever to adopt “hybrid model” of remote and office for staff post-pandemic

HR Digest

It has brands like Dove, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Marmite, Hellman’s, Knorr, Lipton and Persil. Jope also emphasized that the company was keen to pursue its office model too as working from home resulted in a “slow erosion of social capital” as it prevents colleagues from meeting in person. .

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

1] He also worked hard to build his social capital with other talented inventors, but also with wealthy families and financiers like J. Human capital: who you are as a leader of innovation . Social capital: who you know with key expertise and resources. Morgan, the Vanderbilts, and the Rockefellers.

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Exploiting Beauty in the Workplace

Harvard Business Review

Hakim argues that while we have no problem exploiting our other advantages — money (economic capital), intelligence and education (human capital), and contacts (social capital), women especially still shirk from using erotic capital. Why should that be?

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

They’d met at university, and although Derek had gone on to graduate school and a career in banking, while Rogier had joined his family construction business and then founded Contect, they’d never lost touch. But it would take a lot of social capital. The two men went way back.