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Do You Know The Value of Your Social Capital at Work?

Lead Change Blog

The bottom line is, aside from your method of choice, how you say things is as important as what you say, particularly when it comes to building social capital. What is social capital and why is it important? If they scowl at your email, text or call, your social capital is low. What is social capital?

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March 2020 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the March 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Eileen McDargh contributed Cracking the Leadership Code: The Secret to Resilient Leaders.

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Teaching The Skills Entrepreneurs Need To Scale Their Business

The Horizons Tracker

A new paper from INSEAD documents a trial undertaken to test a new training program for entrepreneurs that aims to help improve their competencies in areas such as networking, human capital management and business model innovation. This paper suggests in some ways, it most definitely can.

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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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How to Build and Repair Your Reputation

Skip Prichard

It was definitely not an easy fix. I remember the feeling as I looked out at the audience of several hundred sorority members, and they were paying close attention to my guidance about how to build social capital online… and what could land them in a reputation crisis. He was clearly the target of an online attack.

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Why Innovation is not "Invented Here"

Coaching Tip

The leapfrogging life cycle traces the path to breakthroughs by describing the leadership and organizational dynamics involved at various phases over time. Your acquaintances, on the other hand, by definition occupy a very different world than you. John Agno: Can''t Get Enough Leadership.

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Mentoring Women Is Not About Trying to “Rescue” Them

Harvard Business Review

As Jennifer de Vries has astutely observed, painting male allies and mentors as heroic rescuers actually strengthens the gendered status quo, inadvertently reinforcing male positional power while framing women as ill-prepared for serious leadership roles. So what’s a decent guy to do? We call it reciprocal mentoring.

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