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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

That’s why I enjoyed talking with Jeff Dyer who, along with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, wrote a new book, Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Innovative Leaders. 1] He also worked hard to build his social capital with other talented inventors, but also with wealthy families and financiers like J.

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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. What a wild idea. Consider that in Fang and Huang’s study, they did not find that the men were more likely to be promoted than the women.

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