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Is There A Sweet Spot For Digital Connectivity To Work After Hours?

The Horizons Tracker

After a month had passed, they then completed a questionnaire that was designed to measure social capital development at work. The results suggest that after-hours connectivity can help to develop more social capital, and therefore improve the performance levels of employees, but this only works up to a point.

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Wraparound Support Is Key To Ensuring An Equitable And Fair Future Of Work

The Horizons Tracker

It was a time in which there was a lot of innovation around new educational opportunities, but early evidence showed that most consumers of these opportunities were those already well placed to cope with the changes being seen across society. Social capital.

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We Need More Than Education To Overcome Inequality

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. “This work shows that social origin matters, but it’s not clear what drives this structural inequality,” the researchers conclude. “Is it social capital? Is the advantage at the beginning of a child’s career? Access to networks? Differing financial resources?

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Is Humility The Key To Career Success?

The Horizons Tracker

Humble leadership In this journey, informal career mentoring emerges as the key tool for humble leaders to gain influence within their organization. “That gives them status in the organization because passing on skills, tips and tricks builds up a lot of social capital,” the researchers explain.

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What’s Good For Employees Isn’t Always Good For The Employer

The Horizons Tracker

Research from Bocconi University reminds us that it isn’t always like this, and there are some collaborations that are good for the careers of employees even as they’re harmful to the overall performance of the firm. When we think of teamwork, we perhaps think of all pulling in the same direction toward a common good.

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Are Older Entrepreneurs The Best Entrepreneurs?

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At the heart of their hypothesis is the notion that older adults have a variety of passions, and that these passions can feed into new ideas and innovations. What’s more, these innovations are often with the interests of the community at heart rather than any personal or commercial gain. “A Fear of missing out.

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What Africa's Entrepreneurs Can Teach the World

Harvard Business Review

I spend a significant amount of my time associating with a pro-business think tank that has been building an impressive database of entrepreneurs, small businesses, start-ups, and innovation-driven enterprises in Africa. This was crazy, we initially thought.