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Is There A Sweet Spot For Digital Connectivity To Work After Hours?

The Horizons Tracker

This isn’t a problem just at holiday time, of course, as digital technology allows work to creep into our personal lives all year round. For instance, the researchers found that checking email can actually make us feel more connected to our colleagues, which in turn makes us more productive.

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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. Human capital: who you are as a leader of innovation . Social capital: who you know with key expertise and resources.

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Talking with Each Other @ Work

Coaching Tip

For example, Amazon , a company with about $75 billion in annual revenue and a $140 billion market value, relies on metrics like continually rooting out inefficiencies and, with a few well-known peculiarities like "desks with repurposed doors," underights cost effectiveness and abhors “social cohesion."

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Becoming a Network Linchpin

Coaching Tip

Since all the work in every organization is done through relationships, it makes great sense to utilize technology to allow people to connect and collaborate easily and effectively. The connection and coordination necessary to get things done happens because of productive personal relationships based upon trust and reciprocity.

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Well Connected People Get Results

Coaching Tip

Formula for Success: The formula for both personal and corporate success = your human capital (what you know and can do) times your social capital (who you know and who knows you) times your reputation (who trusts you). How People, Not Technology, Seal the Deal. . Relationships matter more than anything else.

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Job Hunting Success Tips

Coaching Tip

Technology has had a somewhat perverse effect on job-hunting. Technology allows [companies] to search for keywords. What all of the technological advancements have not done is to overcome the primary barrier to getting a job—which, from the employer’s standpoint, is being able to answer, ‘What type of worker will the applicant be?’?”

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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. This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation. The other domain is leadership.