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The Importance Of Place For Entrepreneurship

The Horizons Tracker

This situation was nicely captured by recent research from the University of Manchester, which found that around half of Londoners would prefer to be self-employed than they would salaried employees, less than one in six actually manage this goal. This social capital helps potential entrepreneurs access vital resources and information.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Innovation Capital. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. That’s why I enjoyed talking with Jeff Dyer who, along with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, wrote a new book, Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Innovative Leaders.

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Do We Prefer Our Colleagues To Be Friendly Than Competent?

The Horizons Tracker

There was a particular focus given to the signaling of human capital, which is concerned with their competence and ability to do tasks well, and also their social capital, which concerns itself with things like one’s trustworthiness and friendliness.

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Work from abroad? 10 till 3? The hybrid pioneers shaking up work

Chartered Management Institute

The great risk of the hybrid age is “ disengagement and diminished collaborative intent leading to declining social capital… denuding firms of the very energy and vitality we know creates innovation and ultimately advantage for the firm.” But as with any seismic change, it hasn’t taken long for the downsides to emerge.

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Wraparound Support Is Key To Ensuring An Equitable And Fair Future Of Work

The Horizons Tracker

It was a time in which there was a lot of innovation around new educational opportunities, but early evidence showed that most consumers of these opportunities were those already well placed to cope with the changes being seen across society. Social capital. Leveling the playing field.

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Why Innovation is not "Invented Here"

Coaching Tip

Beyond alarming questions of what is "fair" to the innovators themselves, few have considered how these human capital controls might impact the quality and quantity of innovation--and ultimately economic growth. In LEAPFROGGING , author Soren Kaplan reveals why this command-and-control mindset is exactly what stymies innovation.

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LeadershipNow 140: September 2016 Compilation

Leading Blog

Learn from the Best: Google’s Nine Principles of Innovation via @IXchat. Bridging the Manager/Millennial Disconnect by @DanNegroni. Do You Know The Value of Your Social Capital at Work? Nobody Rises To Low Expectations by @tnvora. The Ambidextrous Leader by Julian Birkinshaw via @LBS. Want to Be a Good Boss?