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3 Things the Most Creative Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

The free-flowing exchange, in which employees, partners, and collaborators gain social capital through their creative input, has helped propel growth. He had a hunch that if he simply announced a sweeping change — out with the old way and in with the new — many of his execs would have resisted and asked to be exempted.

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When Selling Digital Content, Let the Customer Set the Price

Harvard Business Review

The newspaper industry is a good example of just how difficult it can be to thrive when business goes digital, especially if that business is chronically resistant to change. This architecture reflects three key ingredients of today’s social marketplaces: Empowerment. Integrate the idea of social capital in the monetization approach.

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Should You Talk About Politics at Work?

Harvard Business Review

this election cycle, it’s hard to resist the desire to talk about what’s going on with your coworkers. “The central challenge of creating social capital in the workplace is learning how to transcend our judgments of other people,” says Grenny. When politics is as heated as it has been in the U.S.