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Decision Making Scenarios

Coaching Tip

This ''law of love'' is identified in many different ways--for example, in Wayne Baker''s bestseller, " Achieving Success Through Social Capital " (Jossey-Bass), this law of love in the workplace is described as the "law of reciprocity.". Remind yourself of your objectives. And so those who help you may not be those you help.

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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

They received generous expat remuneration packages and the tremendous opportunity to create their own social capital by meeting entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and being exposed to the frontier of ideas and technologies. An integration and propagation model should address three objectives: Map out local relationships.

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What to Do When Your Boss Won?t Advocate for You

Harvard Business Review

Perhaps your boss is trying to advocate for you but lacks the social capital and credibility to successfully advocate for anyone. That way you can develop a reputation for being a reliable, growth-minded leader who is focused on the organization’s objectives. Or, perhaps your boss may simply not want to be your champion.

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The CEO's Priority Should Be the Corporation's Survival

Harvard Business Review

Employees provide human capital, customers provide revenue and social capital, governments provide critical infrastructure (not just "pipes and schools" but most fundamentally the rule of law) and legitimacy, and shareholders provide financial capital. None comes first in line; none is even primus inter pares.

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Position Yourself for a Stretch Assignment

Harvard Business Review

You will fit more easily into the culture, retain part of your social capital, and have larger chances to recover if you fail. Define a realistic timetable for objectives, including learning, building relationships, and scoring "early wins". Short-term projects are a good way to stretch without committing to a permanent change.

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

Harvard Business Review

Reach out to a colleague who is on the list to find out more about the agenda and objective of the meeting to determine whether it’s appropriate for you to add your voice to the discussion. Is the focus of the meeting related to work your team does, but will really be a deeper dive on the primary work of another group?

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How Men Can Become Better Allies to Women

Harvard Business Review

The — seemingly cynical — objective? Share your social capital (influence, information, knowledge, and organizational resources) with women’s groups but ask them — don’t assume — how you can best support their efforts. The solution is more interaction and learning, not less.