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Building Relationships Across Cultures In Today’s World

Tanveer Naseer

In many parts of China –– the art of networking in business revolves around a system of building social capital known as guanxi (gwan-shee). Similar systems exist in countries throughout Latin America like Chile, Colombia, and Mexico where they may call this kind of social capital “Palanca.”

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Marketing Is Dead

Harvard Business Review

Help them build social capital. The new marketing helps its advocates and influencers create social capital: it helps them build their affiliation networks, increase their reputation and gives them access to new knowledge — all of which your customer influencers crave.

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Manage Your Time Without Annoying Your Coworkers

Harvard Business Review

Don’t come in on Monday and say, ‘I went to a seminar and the workshop leader said to only check email once a day so that’s what I’m going to do.’” When things are going well, you have social capital to spend,” says Dattner. Of course, this doesn’t give you permission to implement whatever time-management approach you like.