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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.

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The More You Energize Your Coworkers, the Better Everyone Performs

Harvard Business Review

As Dutton and Heaphy describe, the leaders focused on building high-quality connections and strengthening social capital as ways to improve the leadership pipeline. In a large petro-chemical company, for example, we found a lot of de-energizing relationships — and most of them emanated from the leaders.

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