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First, Know Yourself

Coaching Tip

For someone to take the time about a topic, give it an impressive title and subtitle, organize it, review it, plan it and get it published, says much about a person. Your success formula is based on: Your Human Capital (what you know and can do) X Your Social Capital (who you know and who knows you) X Your Reputation (who trusts you).

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Saving Face – How to Preserve Dignity and Build Trust

Leading with Trust

She emphasizes that face is a form of social currency. The more face you have, the easier it is to accomplish things at work, the smoother your relationships, and the more social capital you have at your disposal. Losing face provokes shame, guilt, fear, vulnerability, and a wide range of negative emotions.

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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations. Unhindered, they quickly amassed valuable social capital through an array of personal and professional relationships, as well as local intelligence and insights.

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Building Customer Communities Is the Key to Creating Value

Harvard Business Review

At Level 4, you're helping customers build their social capital — that is, helping them to build and expand valuable support groups and communities. Helping customers build social capital may seem far removed from the concerns a competitive business should occupy itself with.

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Badges? We Don’t Need No LinkedIn Badges

Harvard Business Review

To me this means that he has, in essence, made the calculation that the use of social networks will replace the “badges” that my generation valued to determine reputation. He has opted for the social network over the fraternity as the basis for future advancement, and I hardly think he will be the last to do so.

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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. Scaling Social Impact Insights from HBR and The Bridgespan Group. Facebook Presence Is an Important Clue to a Social Venture's Future. Using Technology and Data for Social Impact.

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

Harvard Business Review

In his article “ Why Conglomerates Thrive (Outside the U.S.) ” in the December 2013 issue of the Harvard Business Review , J. Subsequently they become more knowledge-based, as you share technologies, brands and customer intelligence. Since 1995 the index has remained stable at around level 3 in India and level 7.5 in the U.S.,