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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. Skills for scaling.

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Mentoring Still Not Happening for Women in the Workplace

Great Leadership By Dan

Since the benefits of mentoring are well documented, this research took a closer look at the less explored side of the issue surveying 318 businesswomen from 19 different countries and 30 different industries. Since women often have difficulty building social capital at work, mentoring is even more critical to their success.

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Marketing Is Dead

Harvard Business Review

Help them build social capital. The new marketing helps its advocates and influencers create social capital: it helps them build their affiliation networks, increase their reputation and gives them access to new knowledge — all of which your customer influencers crave.

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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. Gratitude for help received encourages paying it forward and helping others, as Nat Bulkley and I documented in a large-scale study. Create Energizing Events.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

PMs have to have a deep understanding of how the organization operates and must build social capital to influence the success of their product – from obtaining budget and staffing to securing a top engineer to work on their product.

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Why “Network More” Is Bad Advice for Women

Harvard Business Review

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. Promotions ought to be handed out according to who is the smartest and most capable, not according to who appears the most confident. What a wild idea.

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People Are Angry About Globalization. Here’s What to Do About It.

Harvard Business Review

” I document this extensively in my forthcoming book, The Laws of Globalization , but let’s consider just a few examples. executives feel that they do not generally seem to have the kind of social capital that would cushion against a big sociopolitical backlash. In the U.S., Perhaps U.S.