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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

They received generous expat remuneration packages and the tremendous opportunity to create their own social capital by meeting entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and being exposed to the frontier of ideas and technologies. An integration and propagation model should address three objectives: Map out local relationships.

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What to Do When Your Boss Won?t Advocate for You

Harvard Business Review

In other words, you may not have a bad boss — you just might not have developed enough or demonstrated the skill necessary for the boss to advocate for your advancement yet. Perhaps your boss is trying to advocate for you but lacks the social capital and credibility to successfully advocate for anyone.

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Position Yourself for a Stretch Assignment

Harvard Business Review

I once hired a McKinsey consultant into a country manager role in a developing region. Today's headlines might tell us we're suffering through a jobs crisis, at least in the developed world. You will fit more easily into the culture, retain part of your social capital, and have larger chances to recover if you fail.

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How to Respond When You’re Left Out of Important Meetings

Harvard Business Review

Reach out to a colleague who is on the list to find out more about the agenda and objective of the meeting to determine whether it’s appropriate for you to add your voice to the discussion. Develop your rationale.

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How Men Can Become Better Allies to Women

Harvard Business Review

The — seemingly cynical — objective? Developing psychological standing requires a commitment to learning and advocating for gender equity. At one recent conference for women in technology, a Bingo card was circulated by women in the audience just before a panel composed of men on the topic of male allyship.

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The More You Energize Your Coworkers, the Better Everyone Performs

Harvard Business Review

In one case, two operational leaders at Kelly Services, a workforce solutions firm, created a Business Resource Group to promote leadership development and increase employee engagement. With this objective map, they could identify where they needed to make positive improvements. Create Energizing Events.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring. ” Self-awareness: PMs must be self-aware so as to remain objective and avoid projecting their own preferences onto users of their products.