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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? Lida Citroen.

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Managing a Successful Career

Coaching Tip

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. Whether you recognize it or not, each day you are building your brand--the good, the bad and the ugly!

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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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Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

LDRLB

We all know the companies and brands that failed to find this delicate balance: Kodak, Blockbuster, Borders, and the list could go on and on. This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation. The other domain is leadership. Innovation innovation kaplan Leadership'

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Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

LDRLB

We all know the companies and brands that failed to find this delicate balance: Kodak, Blockbuster, Borders, and the list could go on and on. This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation. The other domain is leadership. Role model these things every day.

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3 Things the Most Creative Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

The free-flowing exchange, in which employees, partners, and collaborators gain social capital through their creative input, has helped propel growth. He asked his management team to join him in a six-month prototype of the company’s open “Leadership Community.” Further Reading.

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The Big Goal Behind All that Customer Data

Harvard Business Review

Big Data is working hard to get into the minds of customers and uncover accurate information about how the customer really feels, thinks and responds to products, services, advertising and brands. They're helping customers build social capital. So let's take customer value up a notch, to a higher, richer dimension.

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