The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

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.

Career 52

Career Succession Mentor Self-aware 52

Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Building something as important as your personal brand and reputation requires the same attention you would give any crucial career asset.” I love speaking with young people as they start off their careers. The post How to Build and Repair Your Reputation first appeared on Skip Prichard | Leadership Insights. Lida Citroen.

Reputation 132

Reputation Brand How To Media 132

HR Digest

JULY 28, 2021

It is a tough time as they bank on social capital and how to maintain cohesion without the benefit of informal coffee, lunch or smoke breaks. Reskilling will become more important than ever as the skills needed for fulfilling career changes. This is a key moment for business leaders to respond promptly and with urgency.

McKinsey 134

McKinsey Aggregate Demand Industry Crisis 134

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

He is at the very beginning of his career: exploring the world, delaying any kind of emotional or physical settling down that, a generation ago, would have been the norm at his age. When careers become 50 or 60 years long, they will want to move away from the current, linear career model that puts so much emphasis on the 30s and 40s.

Career 8

Career Leadership Pipeline Social Capital Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2018

When women are mentored by men , they make more money, receive more promotions, and report greater satisfaction with their career trajectories. Although advantageous for all employees, mentoring is particularly helpful to women for addressing the myriad barriers to career advancement. So what’s a decent guy to do?

Mentor 15

Mentor Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

To win and succeed in a stretch assignment, high potentials need to have the right motive (a willingness to have an impact on others in a selfless way), the right leadership assets (including among others the ability to learn, stay resilient, and connect), and be willing to accept the costs of a senior executive position.

Positioning 16

Positioning Social Capital McKinsey Globalization 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Black has no management experience in education — her entire career has been spent in magazine publishing — and her contact with the public school system in New York has been very limited. Cathleen Black's appointment raises, first, the perennial question: Is leadership a highly contextual capability?

Tacit Knowledge 15

Tacit Knowledge Festinger Social Capital Education 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2018

This lack of female leadership is important to explore, but what are the experiences of black women in the workplace before they make it to the c-suite? ” Because she performed so well on the project, she gained social capital with her supervisor. Exclusion forces people to deviate from their authentic selves.

Hotels 17

Hotels Project Class Mentor 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

I have worked my entire career in great health systems with fabulous people. What makes these five examples so painful for me is that none of them required much in the way of capital investment. But all of them required (and continue to demand) expenditure of social capital, changing in the way people work together.

Health Care 15

Health Care Examples Mayo Management 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

I have worked my entire career in great health systems with fabulous people. What makes these five examples so painful for me is that none of them required much in the way of capital investment. But all of them required (and continue to demand) expenditure of social capital, changing in the way people work together.

Health Care 15

Health Care Examples Mayo Management 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

And being the last to learn about key decisions can set your team back, and bring your leadership into question. In our work with leadership teams about meeting governance, we coach folks to put the company first by stepping forward to “vote themselves off the island” by opting out of meetings where they wouldn’t add value.

How To 8

How To Social Capital Maturity Operations 8

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Science tells us that men and women use different parts of their brains and consequently have different behaviors that lead to different leadership styles. Gender-based differences play out in leadership nearly every day influencing how men and women communicate , act, react, problem-solve, make decisions and work together. Women Lead.

Team 103

Team Leadership Self-aware Politics 103

Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 24, 2013

The best leaders build the ‘social capital’ of their organizations,” says Dr. Wayne Baker, author of " Achieving Success Through Social Capital" (Jossey-Bass, 2000). Find out more about social capital by clicking here. Leadership in a Gladiator Culture. John Agno: Ask the Coach . Related articles.

Social Capital 77

Social Capital Cialdini Competitive Advantage Human Capital 77

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

PMs have to have a deep understanding of how the organization operates and must build social capital to influence the success of their product – from obtaining budget and staffing to securing a top engineer to work on their product. They also have more influence and authority over company resources.

Products 8

Products Productivity Core Competence Management 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

1] He also worked hard to build his social capital with other talented inventors, but also with wealthy families and financiers like J. Human capital: who you are as a leader of innovation . Social capital: who you know with key expertise and resources. Morgan, the Vanderbilts, and the Rockefellers.

Innovation 83

Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 83

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

They’d met at university, and although Derek had gone on to graduate school and a career in banking, while Rogier had joined his family construction business and then founded Contect, they’d never lost touch. The smaller ones could keep their own names, leadership teams, practices, and policies for the first five years.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8