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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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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. Give them a say.

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The New Kind of Worker Every Business Needs

Harvard Business Review

We live in a world in which amplified individuals — people empowered by technologies and the collective intelligence of their social networks — can do things that previously only a large organization could. Indeed, they can do some things that no organization could do before.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About "Social"

Harvard Business Review

about six years ago, and the emphasis was on the on software tools and platforms that increase information flow. The idea was that if we use social tools, we would share information freely both within the organization and external marketplaces. technologies could be used on organizations' intranet and extranets".

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When Selling Digital Content, Let the Customer Set the Price

Harvard Business Review

Bezos’ question certainly resonates with us, as it embodies a fundamental problem that many businesses—sellers of newspapers, music, movies, videogames, software, etc.—are Integrate the idea of social capital in the monetization approach. The technology is there. ( The Washington Post ; September 3, 2013). Reputation.

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Should You Talk About Politics at Work?

Harvard Business Review

“The central challenge of creating social capital in the workplace is learning how to transcend our judgments of other people,” says Grenny. Joseph Sherman, a marketing specialist at Vimtag Technology, lives in Israel but works in New York. Demonstrating respect “is about subtlety,” he says.