Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

You may have employees working globally, doing business with people from other regions or countries, or you might be relocating executives across cultures. By this, I mean being aware of the nuances of political systems, cultural norms, and psychological mindsets of whom we do business with and for. The face of business has changed.

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Globalization Long-term Social Capital Travel 150

Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 24, 2013

For example, Amazon , a company with about $75 billion in annual revenue and a $140 billion market value, relies on metrics like continually rooting out inefficiencies and, with a few well-known peculiarities like "desks with repurposed doors," underights cost effectiveness and abhors “social cohesion." An open office environment.

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Social Capital Cialdini Competitive Advantage Human Capital 77

Coaching Tip

MARCH 25, 2014

While we cannot entirely rid ourselves of them, we can learn to understand the traps and compensate for them. Do something positive for someone and that person will want to reciprocate some time, some how. The path to reciprocity is indirect: reciprocity ensues from the social capital built by making contributions to others.

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Cialdini Social Capital Influence Real Estate 138

HR Digest

JULY 28, 2021

What should companies do now? This begs a pressing question: What do we do next? Organizations are now facing a learning curve as managers scramble to lead their teams virtually. 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.

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Once people learn the Right Person-Right Approach method, they don''t go back to their old ways. Formula for Success: The formula for both personal and corporate success = your human capital (what you know and can do) times your social capital (who you know and who knows you) times your reputation (who trusts you).

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Social Capital Gordon Self-aware Human Capital 113

Coaching Tip

MARCH 11, 2013

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. Success = Human Capital (what you know and can do) X Social Capital (who you know and who knows you) X Reputation (who trusts you).

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Social Capital Strategy Reputation Human Capital 102

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

If you keep following the edges and watch what the youngsters are doing, it gives you a pretty good idea of what’s coming.” The dangers of not understanding, or overlooking, innovation capital are illustrated by the battle between two great inventors: Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla. Indra Nooyi. Lessons from Tesla versus Edison.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 18, 2014

Of those that do, training is often ineffective. Since women often have difficulty building social capital at work, mentoring is even more critical to their success. Clarify and articulate what you hope to learn from the mentorship by clearly defining desired learning goals. Why mentoring matters and next steps?

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Mentor Survey Social Capital Globalization 253

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

That’s the finding of new research from the University of Technology Sydney, with the authors urging universities and industry to do more to provide access to such opportunities for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. ” Compulsory practice. ” Compulsory practice. ” A better approach. . ” A better approach.

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Engineering Diversity Social Capital Compliance 78

Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2020

And when we’re anxious, we do impulsive and short-sighted things. Even with its ups and downs, they’ve learned to depend on you. This is a time to share the challenges regarding fixed costs, debt, obligations and the cost of doing business. Describe what you are doing, and ask for help and ideas.

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Crisis Fixed Costs Open-book Social Capital 66

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 10, 2017

Our web of relations creates the foundation for our lives as social creatures, no matter what culture we come from. Networking is a nuanced game, and it can be challenging for an outsider to learn all the subtleties of networking within another culture. In other cultures, people tend to do much less socializing with colleagues.

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Long-term Short-term Social Capital Bureaucracy 100

Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 25, 2010

We are sorely deficient of what I refer to as connection (also known as community, social capital, belonging or meaningful relationships). What can you do? Do this daily, if at all possible. Sounds like they are doing some good things at Zappos, especially when it comes to culture care. why is everyone smiling?

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LDRLB

MAY 11, 2012

Employees who effectively understand and navigate the social structure of an organization are the most influential employees, for better or for worse, in the organization. Galbraith also wrote that “the long-term human resources role is to build social capital by creating richly connected interpersonal networks across the organization.”

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Power Human Resources Competitive Advantage Social Capital 112

Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 6, 2011

I hate doing these yearly performance evaluations.” posted at Team Building & Leadership Blog: Create-Learning. How do you talk to a CEO ? But where and how do we find it? A few notes: I read every submission. Not all submissions made the cut. Congratulations to those of you who did. Got a fave?

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LDRLB

MAY 11, 2012

Employees who effectively understand and navigate the social structure of an organization are the most influential employees, for better or for worse, in the organization. Galbraith also wrote that “the long-term human resources role is to build social capital by creating richly connected interpersonal networks across the organization.”

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Power Human Resources Competitive Advantage Social Capital 68

Management Craft

APRIL 26, 2011

I will be doing a two day training session in Istanbul in November on the topic of managing up. The company I am doing this course for was very specific - this is the topic they most need and have requests for. If one employee wants to learn to manage up, this might be more about the employee and not a broader problem.

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Management Participative How To Social Capital 61

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

APRIL 22, 2011

This post is part of a three-week series exploring the re-invention of the social infrastructure of cities, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. But I loved to learn. We created a network and trained the community to take advantage of all these assets, turning them into social capital.

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Social Capital Education Human Capital Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2018

So what’s a decent guy to do? By entering mentoring connections with real humility and curiosity, male mentors may find that they learn more about the experiences of women in their organization, diversify their networks and enhance their interpersonal skills. Janina Pires/EyeEm/Getty Images. We call it reciprocal mentoring.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

How do I do this within a pretty traditional organization?”. ” In fact the average life of Fortune 500 organizations continues to shrink from 67 years in the 1920s to just 15 years today, according to Professor Richard Foster from Yale University , as do the number of world-changing ideas emerging from them.

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Entrepreneur Organization Competitive Advantage Social Capital 18

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

As I described in my last post , your prospective customers and buyers increasingly learn about you from their peers — including your current customers — while tending more and more to ignore traditional sales and marketing communications from corporate. This is an area of tremendous creativity. What's in it for Microsoft?

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Social Capital Review Software Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

In my experience as a consultant for Fortune 500 companies, I’ve found that the most effective organizations onboard new hires for the duration of their first year — their most vulnerable period — and focus on three key dimensions: the organizational, the technical, and the social. Organizational Onboarding.

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Short-term Social Capital Report Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

We live in a world in which amplified individuals — people empowered by technologies and the collective intelligence of their social networks — can do things that previously only a large organization could. Indeed, they can do some things that no organization could do before.

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Mission Statement Class Learning-by-Doing Pharmaceuticals 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Social status, social relations, daily structure, and goals all exert a strong influence on people’s happiness. Not only are the unemployed generally unhappier than those in work, we find in our analyses that people generally do not adapt over time to becoming unemployed. Austria is followed closely by Norway and Iceland.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

I hope they make you feel envious, too — and that you will send us your own examples so that we might learn from them as well. I asked some Mayo physicians why they were willing to do this “extra work” beyond their specialty expertise. Transparency at University of Utah Health Care. health care work.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

I hope they make you feel envious, too — and that you will send us your own examples so that we might learn from them as well. I asked some Mayo physicians why they were willing to do this “extra work” beyond their specialty expertise. Transparency at University of Utah Health Care. health care work.

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Health Care Examples Mayo Management 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

And being the last to learn about key decisions can set your team back, and bring your leadership into question. Ask yourself, am I feeling vulnerable or paranoid or do I really need to be there? “Dear Annika, do you have 15 minutes to chat about the Operations Update?

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How To Social Capital Maturity Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

Yes, young and ambitious people with bright eyes and open hearts need to learn to accept the cold shoulder of established industry gatekeepers, even when it seems like the only goal of the latter is to prevent new ideas and innovation bubbling to the surface of their tired companies and low-growth industries. It happens to me daily.

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Social Capital Industry Retail Budgeting 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

How much energy do you have at work? Do you feel invigorated and engaged or down and disengaged? This is what my colleagues Bradley Owens, Dana Sumpter, Kim Cameron, and I learned in an article we published earlier this year. What do they do? What do they say? Marion Barraud for HBR. ” 5. Owens ET AL.,

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Energy Health Care Leadership Pipeline Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2018

That partly had to do with the fact that your clients look like you and it’s easier to build that relationship.” ” Because she performed so well on the project, she gained social capital with her supervisor. I wouldn’t be able to make that analogy on another team.

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Hotels Project Class Mentor 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Too often however, our response is to ignore and forget change, to fake our way through it, to pretend an engagement and a mastery we do not have. It turns out there are lots of people who don''t get the new technology and now social life is a little like a competition to show that we''re not "falling for it." And that''s bad.

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Disruptive Innovation Early Adopters Innovation Social Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

A good PM may know the Do’s and Don’ts of a customer interview, but the best PMs have the ability to empathize with customers in that interview, are tuned into their body language and emotions, and can astutely suss out the true pain-points that their product or feature will address. Emotional Intelligence (EQ).

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2015

How do you figure out which sessions to attend? And what should you do if you’re an introvert who hates small talk ? “Today, probably even more than ever before, networks are a key form of social capital for achieving goals in both your professional and personal lives.” What the Experts Say.

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Conference How To Venture Capitalist Case Study 8

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 21, 2012

However, when 50 percent of the workforce is made up of women, it behooves men to build bridges, look for women's strengths, and learn how to leverage them. Women struggle with too much to do, too many people to please, too few resources, too few hours in our days and too little help. Those are just a part of the total picture.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This whole decade is an entirely new phase, referred to as ” emerging adulthood ,” and it’s something experts are suggesting may be a normal extension of learning and experimentation for a species living in an ever more complex world. We will want to learn to re-learn and be open to repetitive re-training.

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Career Leadership Pipeline Social Capital Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Leaders need others' confidence and support and get it when their experience is perceived as relevant and, better yet, when key relationships provide them with social capital. Why do outside candidates so often have the edge? Do unpopular decisions diminish power? Two challenges tend to trip up the outsiders.

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Tacit Knowledge Festinger Social Capital Education 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Similarly, those concerned about world domination by multinationals would presumably be surprised to learn that the share of global output generated by multinational firms outside their home countries has hovered around 10% since 2000. Pro-globalizers need to do a better job of making their case. by almost half. foreign affairs.

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