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Decision Making Scenarios

Coaching Tip

Before making an important decision, prudent managers evaluate the situations confronting them — and often fall into one of the eight traps of faulty thinking. The path to reciprocity is indirect: reciprocity ensues from the social capital built by making contributions to others. The Antidote.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

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. ” Management Science 56.2 v=HfnFeJlkfZE. [5]

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During this Crisis, Don’t Expect Business as Usual from the Family Enterprise

Strategy Driven

We simply have no precedent for how to plan for what may come next, or for managing the pace of the upheaval. That uncertainty and inability to be in command of business operations makes us anxious. The response must recognize financial reality, but also sustain social capital by respecting all stakeholders.

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Giving Away Trust

Coaching Tip

That is because trust allows us to function in times of uncertainty. Trust calms the fears that uncertainty breeds. In times of high uncertainty, therefore, we pay more attention to the source of trust: human conduct-- How we do what we do. That something is trust. It buys you the benefit of the doubt.

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Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

LDRLB

Soren is the Managing Principal of InnovationPoint, an Adjunct Professor within the Imagineering Academy at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and the author of the new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs. This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. The other domain is leadership.

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Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

LDRLB

Soren is the Managing Principal of InnovationPoint, an Adjunct Professor within the Imagineering Academy at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and the author of the new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs. This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. The other domain is leadership.

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Why Innovation is not "Invented Here"

Coaching Tip

That''s why on Amazon every management book with the word "surprise" in its title is about how to avoid or prevent the phenomena. Businesses hate uncertainty. Baker: Achieving Success Through Social Capital: Tapping Hidden Resources in Your Personal and Business Networks. John Agno: Can''t Get Enough Leadership.