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Real Dysfunction Today, Hidden in Plain Sight

Michael Lee Stallard

We are sorely deficient of what I refer to as connection (also known as community, social capital, belonging or meaningful relationships). They sense that something is wrong although though they don’t understand why. The problem today is hidden in plain sight. How did we get to this state? why is everyone smiling?

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Best of the Web Leadership Articles

Michael Lee Stallard

Jon Ingham presents Leading in the Love Shack at Management 2.0 developing social capital. Patrick Bradshaw presents The Name of the Integrated Talent Management Game posted at TrendWatchers. Kathy C presents 7 ways to do this in Leverage What You Do Right in Your Marketing Plan ! at MAPping Company Success.

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What to Do Before You Fire a Pivotal Employee

Harvard Business Review

As noted in research by Paul Adler and Seok-Woo Kwon at the University of Southern California, a well-designed employee network essentially makes up the “social capital” of a company, due to all the assets or resources that can be mobilized through the network.

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Why “Network More” Is Bad Advice for Women

Harvard Business Review

And although there are benefits to social capital, as Fang and Huang’s study makes clear, rewarding the people with the chummiest network simply creates a self-fulfilling cycle. Talent management Gender Assessing performance Financial Services' ” Promoting someone based on measurable competence!

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What Happens When Careers Last 20 Years Longer?

Harvard Business Review

They group these into three areas and argue that over time, you want to review that you are investing enough to balance out your portfolio for a lifetime: Productive assets: Knowledge, skills, professional social capital, reputation. Vitality assets: Health, relationships, love, regenerative friendships, balance.

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What Africa's Entrepreneurs Can Teach the World

Harvard Business Review

I am now convinced, though, that the entrepreneurial driver behind talent churn in African labor markets actually yields significant net benefits for African economies. We had explained the talent churn away as a consequence of small, sub-optimal, unscalable businesses that failed to give talented managers a vision of personal career growth.