Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 18, 2014

Since women often have difficulty building social capital at work, mentoring is even more critical to their success. Compounding the problem, mentors aren’t being armed with the interpersonal skills (coaching, networking and influencing) they need to be effective in their roles. Why mentoring matters and next steps?

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Mentor Survey Social Capital Globalization 253

Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2020

The response must recognize financial reality, but also sustain social capital by respecting all stakeholders. a leading architect of the field of family enterprise consulting, is an acclaimed speaker in programs for business families and financial service firms. About the Author. Jaffe, Ph.D.,

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Crisis Open-book Fixed Costs Social Capital 66

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 10, 2017

In many parts of China –– the art of networking in business revolves around a system of building social capital known as guanxi (gwan-shee). Similar systems exist in countries throughout Latin America like Chile, Colombia, and Mexico where they may call this kind of social capital “Palanca.”

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Long-term Short-term Social Capital Bureaucracy 100

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2016

As a management consultant to over a hundred firms in the last thirty years, my team and I have worked with global companies such as Toyota, Suncor, Siemens, and FedEx, to name a few, to help them transform into new world companies – companies ready to take on the challenges of today’s global economy. About the Author.

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Company Globalization Outsourcing Transportation 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

In my experience as a consultant for Fortune 500 companies, I’ve found that the most effective organizations onboard new hires for the duration of their first year — their most vulnerable period — and focus on three key dimensions: the organizational, the technical, and the social.

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Short-term Social Capital Report Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

Third, in today's increasingly social media-infused environment, traditional marketing and sales not only doesn't work so well, it doesn't make sense. Help them build social capital. Excel's efforts with "insider knowledge" and previews of new releases.

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Marketing Social Capital Media Influence 22

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2018

Acutely aware of privilege conferred by gender and race, men in reciprocal mentorships are deliberate about sharing social capital, including influence, information, knowledge, and support with mentees. Shared power: Genuine reciprocity requires even high-ranking mentors to reject hierarchy and emphasize power-sharing.

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Mentor Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Diversity consultant Jennifer Brown recognizes that not all male allies are equally evolved. Consultant Chuck Shelton reminds men that listening to women’s voices in a way that inspires trust and respect is a fundamental relationship promise you must make, and then keep, with women who invite you to participate around equity.

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Conference Self-aware Diversity Participative 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

I once hired a McKinsey consultant into a country manager role in a developing region. You will fit more easily into the culture, retain part of your social capital, and have larger chances to recover if you fail. Two years later, despite great success, he told me he wanted to find a job at another company in his home country.

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Positioning Social Capital McKinsey Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2018

” A twenty-something woman at a top-tier consulting company described the first time she worked for a client team that included other people of color. ” Because she performed so well on the project, she gained social capital with her supervisor. ’ Everyone instantly got it and it was a beautiful thing.

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Hotels Project Class Mentor 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

It turns out there are lots of people who don''t get the new technology and now social life is a little like a competition to show that we''re not "falling for it." At this point, there can more social capital in saying that we don''t like the tech than that we do. Stage 2 is marked by snappy one-liners. were right all along.

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Disruptive Innovation Early Adopters Innovation Social Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

What makes these five examples so painful for me is that none of them required much in the way of capital investment. But all of them required (and continue to demand) expenditure of social capital, changing in the way people work together. It’s wonderful for the patients, but not the way most specialists in U.S.

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Health Care Examples Mayo Management 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

What makes these five examples so painful for me is that none of them required much in the way of capital investment. But all of them required (and continue to demand) expenditure of social capital, changing in the way people work together. It’s wonderful for the patients, but not the way most specialists in U.S.

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Health Care Examples Mayo Management 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

As Dutton and Heaphy describe, the leaders focused on building high-quality connections and strengthening social capital as ways to improve the leadership pipeline. Some years ago, Rob Cross and I started adding an energy question to the usual set of network questions we asked in our organizational research and consulting.

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Energy Health Care Leadership Pipeline Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2011

You and I work on a six-month consulting project, for example. 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. Examine your strongest professional relationships.

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Christensen Project Social Capital Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

This second generation of Social Business terminology was coined by the Dachis Group, a marketing organization, and specifically by Peter Kim , who consults on it. Sometimes people use the term Social Capitalism to get to this same idea. Some people tie it to Michael Porter's Shared Value concept.

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Media Supply Chain Tools Porter 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

And although there are benefits to social capital, as Fang and Huang’s study makes clear, rewarding the people with the chummiest network simply creates a self-fulfilling cycle. From there, move between companies as you hopscotch your way into bigger roles and more responsibility. What a wild idea.

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Advice Sample Social Capital CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

This is simply because being in a job appears to trigger latent entrepreneurship, and also because there is a more intensive re-investment of social capital to generate financial capital than is customary in the West.

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Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain Globalization 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

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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Human Capital Social Capital Education Career 15