Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Do You Know The Value of Your Social Capital at Work? Ritual Questions Help Inform Effective Leaders by @RicherEarth. From @JohnBaldoni Can You Be Happy If You Are Clueless? by @MarySchaefer. When Things Go Wrong by @djgreer. Paying Your Dues : What It Really Means & Doesn't Mean by @KateNasser.

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LDRLB

JULY 30, 2019

Intro-bombing people by randomly showing up in their email inbox with a list of new people to talk to isn’t only inappropriate, but it will likely reduce the amount of social capital you’ve build with that person and that community. But introductions need to be made properly. So, make sure it is exactly that before you start.

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 25, 2014

This ''law of love'' is identified in many different ways--for example, in Wayne Baker''s bestseller, " Achieving Success Through Social Capital " (Jossey-Bass), this law of love in the workplace is described as the "law of reciprocity.". Avoid anchoring your advisers, consultants and others from whom you solicit information.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 29, 2015

Effective corporate leaders know that since competition is a matter of relations, the ability to structure and influence the informal, as well as formal power networks determines marketplace success. . They use their knowledge to earn trust and build their reputation within the company.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Sharing knowledge and adding value to the organization depends upon the capabilities of workers to informally connect with others. The best leaders build the ‘social capital’ of their organizations,” says Dr. Wayne Baker, author of " Achieving Success Through Social Capital" (Jossey-Bass, 2000). Source: Wayne E.

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Career Advancement

MARCH 20, 2017

Successful influencers cultivate alliances with people across the company who are in positions of leadership or who have strong social capital. As you naturally assume more of an informal leadership role, a work promotion is likely to follow.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 14, 2014

Each colleague identifies the resources (knowledge, information, expertise, budget, product, emotional support or so on) or contacts (someone he or she knows who can provide the resource) in response to as many requests as possible. An easy way to do this is to write the request on a Post-it note. Related articles. Leadership Communication.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

. “In addition to business model innovation, practitioners stress the importance of social capital for entrepreneurs.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Sharing knowledge and adding value to the organization depends upon the capabilities of workers to informally connect with others. The best leaders build the ‘social capital’ of their organizations,” says Dr. Wayne Baker, author of Achieving Success Through Social Capital (Jossey-Bass, 2000).

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 11, 2013

On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interaction that are crucial to the way knowledge moves through an organization. Increasing one's social capital is all knowing how to share knowledge so it not only adds value to the organization but also to your recognized worth within it.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 19, 2013

For example, in studies of network maps in organizations comparing people’s position in information networks (i.e., who obtains information from whom), influence networks (i.e., Being a positive energizer made individuals four times more likely to succeed than being at the center of an information or influence network.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

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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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Profiling potential contacts to determine who would likely have exactly the right set of knowledge, relationships, personal characteristics, abilities and inclination to provide the information needed to narrow down and access the sea of prospects matters. . Relationships matter more than anything else. Related articles.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Once found, the firms are harnessing these workers'' clout to come up with new products, get workers on board with big changes like mergers, or spread information throughout the organization. Armed with reams of new data, companies including giants Procter & Gamble Co. and Cisco Systems Inc.

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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. Mentoring is essential to practical experience sharing, to passing the wisdom-gained baton and to closing the information gaps between different parts of the organization. Why mentoring matters and next steps?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2020

And yet every day we must act – even making tough choices – without much information about the best direction to take. Family business owners need to be open with their employees, transparently communicating information and concerns. Family businesses and wealth are under threat like never before.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 21, 2012

Yet since the 1970s, access to information has exploded. Considering the expansion of the Internet, powerful search engines, and social media, it should be much easier to match potential employees with employers. Apparently not. “We We find that in the U.S., Arrow of Stanford and Ron Borzekowski of the Federal Reserve.

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HR Digest

JULY 28, 2021

It is a tough time as they bank on social capital and how to maintain cohesion without the benefit of informal coffee, lunch or smoke breaks. This is a key moment for business leaders to respond promptly and with urgency. Organizations are now facing a learning curve as managers scramble to lead their teams virtually.

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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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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 3, 2020

Jim Taggart of Changing Winds shared Build Your Organization’s Social Capital by Keeping Good Company. One tangible outcome of this is the open sharing of information through collaborative work relationships.” ” Follow Jim on Twitter at @72keys.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 7, 2011

In short, trust is a form of social capital that enhances performance between individuals, within and among groups, and in larger collectives, like organizations, institutions and nations. Research has linked the virtues and benefits of trust to economic prosperity, societal stability, and even human survival.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In this case, we were able to involve Google directly in removing the information. I remember a few years ago I was hired by a sorority at a large university to speak about reputation risk in social media. They were almost untraceable, which made them difficult to remove.

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Management Craft

MAY 12, 2011

As leaders, sometimes we should spend a little social capital and roll the dice on a promising potential - cautious smautious. He said that senior leaders weigh very carefully (erring on the conservative side) who they will vouch for or make connections for. This is both understandable (to a point) and sad.

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

When it comes to finding out about new jobs, new information or new ideas, "weak ties" are always more important than strong ties. Baker: Achieving Success Through Social Capital: Tapping Hidden Resources in Your Personal and Business Networks. Accordingly, individuals and firms each need strong and weak connections to thrive.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 6, 2011

They are nowhere near accurate and often times I feel forced to use recent information to determine employee performance.” developing social capital. At Wilson Insight. “I I hate doing these yearly performance evaluations.” What is it you hate so much?” What would be better?” Managers Can Change That.

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Management Craft

APRIL 26, 2011

Perhaps they collected the information in a needs assessment survey. It surprised me that they got requests for this topic from employees because I think that many employees talk to their outside networks about their frustrations before mentioning anything to internal resources.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

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. They worked with little coordination and control from HQ.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

Having spurned Eric Schmidt’s advice from SXSW that everyone should go to college, he has begun to stockpile the social capital that will power the post-industrial revolution. He has opted for the social network over the fraternity as the basis for future advancement, and I hardly think he will be the last to do so.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

At Level 4, you're helping customers build their social capital — that is, helping them to build and expand valuable support groups and communities. Helping customers build social capital may seem far removed from the concerns a competitive business should occupy itself with. What's in it for Microsoft?

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Researchers are forced to become increasingly specialized, because there's only so much information one mind can handle. Scientific advances have lead to a situation where all the remaining problems are incredibly hard. And they have to collaborate, because the most interesting mysteries lie at the intersection of disciplines. "A

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Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

So Seats2meet.com invented a currency for nonmonetary, nontransactional exchange, aptly calling it social capital. It is an attitude of openness and sharing that anyone operating within a social network needs to have anyway. ” Clearly, paying with social capital doesn’t exclusively mean paying Seats2meet.com.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

Buyers are checking out product and service information in their own way , often through the Internet, and often from sources outside the firm such as word-of-mouth or customer reviews. In turn, social media firms, such as Facebook, should become expert at enabling this. Help them build social capital.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

The streets became my informal classroom. Soon after, as a visiting scholar at the Center of Human Rights at Columbia University, I witnessed, in New York, the power of social capital used to improve human capital. This experience has showed me the miracle of social capital, also the tragedy of waste.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

We were building social capital, but we didn't have a way to tell our shareholders — or be held accountable to keep doing it. Follow the Scaling Social Impact insight center on Twitter @ScalingSocial and register to stay informed and give us feedback. Scaling Social Impact Insights from HBR and The Bridgespan Group.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2016

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The first and most common part of onboarding is teaching new employees the information they need to function day in and day out: where to park their car and get an ID card, how to navigate the building, how to enroll in health benefits and educate themselves on regulations and policies. Organizational Onboarding. Teach them how things work.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2016

An extensive network and other types of social capital can help mitigate the effects of organizational stigma. Consider a diverse résumé Stigma and stereotypes are most powerful in the absence of other information, so having multiple jobs on your résumé can dilute the impact of a scandal firm.

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