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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Innovation Capital. Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. 2] But he was simply unable to attract the right talent and financial resources to successfully commercialize his ideas.

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Talking with Each Other @ Work

Coaching Tip

The best leaders build the ‘social capital’ of their organizations,” says Dr. Wayne Baker, author of " Achieving Success Through Social Capital" (Jossey-Bass, 2000). Find out more about social capital by clicking here. Effective social networks that are built on the "law of reciprocity" flourish.

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Well Connected People Get Results

Coaching Tip

Particularly when it comes to search marketing, as it is necessary to accumulate inbound links from other sites to your blog, website, LinkedIn and Facebook pages. How People, Not Technology, Seal the Deal. . Baker: Achieving Success Through Social Capital: Tapping Hidden Resources in Your Personal and Business Networks. .

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Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

LDRLB

Whereas innovation used to be all about research & development, technology, and product or service innovation, what’s required for innovation today goes far beyond the traditional nuts and bolts. Innovation today is as much about how you deliver value as it is about what it is you offer to the market.

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Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

LDRLB

Whereas innovation used to be all about research & development, technology, and product or service innovation, what’s required for innovation today goes far beyond the traditional nuts and bolts. Innovation today is as much about how you deliver value as it is about what it is you offer to the market.

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The Serendipity Machine

Mills Scofield

The power of viral marketing makes it sensible for Seats2meet.com to provide workspaces without asking for financial compensation. In return, they were able to get rid of their marketing department. So Seats2meet.com invented a currency for nonmonetary, nontransactional exchange, aptly calling it social capital.

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Accountants Will Save the World

Harvard Business Review

We were building social capital, but we didn't have a way to tell our shareholders — or be held accountable to keep doing it. Similarly, you don't have to be an energy company or pulp and paper producer to focus on those resources; all companies use water, energy, and paper. Using Technology and Data for Social Impact.