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Teaching The Skills Entrepreneurs Need To Scale Their Business

The Horizons Tracker

A new paper from INSEAD documents a trial undertaken to test a new training program for entrepreneurs that aims to help improve their competencies in areas such as networking, human capital management and business model innovation. Skills for scaling.

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The Law of Reciprocity

Coaching Tip

This ''law of love'' is identified in many different ways--for example, in Wayne Baker''s bestseller, " Achieving Success Through Social Capital " , this law of love in the workplace is described as the "law of reciprocity.". Acts of contribution, big and small, build your fund of social capital, creating a vast network of reciprocity.

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How to Build and Repair Your Reputation

Skip Prichard

Brands evolve and mature and grow just as we do. I remember a few years ago I was hired by a sorority at a large university to speak about reputation risk in social media. Sustaining a brand is first about recognizing that brands are fluid, not static.

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Best of the Web Leadership Articles

Michael Lee Stallard

developing social capital. Finally, there’s 4 Ways to Become a More Emotionally Mature Leader. Kathy C presents 7 ways to do this in Leverage What You Do Right in Your Marketing Plan ! at The Thriving Small Business. A short post on love in organisations ? Jon Ingham presents Leading in the Love Shack at Management 2.0

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New World Companies: The Future Of Capitalism

Strategy Driven

In doing this, I derived a way to describe how companies mature by seeing the process as a symbolic clock of corporate competitiveness. As this concept evolved, I came to focus not on the clock itself, but on what it represents: time.

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Don’t Write Off the (Western) Focused Firm Yet

Harvard Business Review

Finally, when you are at the conglomerate stage, they relate to social capital, as you move talent across internal boundaries and leverage personal relations with politicians, government officials, investors and other external parties who can greatly facilitate or obstruct your plans–not necessarily with the greater good in mind.

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How to Respond When You’re Left Out of Important Meetings

Harvard Business Review

When you take the emotion out of the situation and look for opportunities for the organization to work together more efficiently and productively, and put aside your ego and individual career goals, you’ll gain the respect of your superiors, peers, and subordinates.

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