Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Bridging the Manager/Millennial Disconnect by @DanNegroni. The Best Free Leadership Advice You'll Ever Get by @LollyDaskal. Do You Know The Value of Your Social Capital at Work? Leadership Development Needs More Podium Results by Bruce Watt, PhD via @DDIworld. From @JohnBaldoni Can You Be Happy If You Are Clueless?

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 11, 2013

Increasing one's social capital is all knowing how to share knowledge so it not only adds value to the organization but also to your recognized worth within it. Success = Human Capital (what you know and can do) X Social Capital (who you know and who knows you) X Reputation (who trusts you).

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 10, 2015

your intentions are to manage a successful career. Professor Wayne Baker in his book, "Achieving Success through Social Capital: Tapping Hidden Resources in Your Personal and Business Networks" says, "There is deeply rooted myth in North American culture that shapes our behavior. Winning Time Management Strategies.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 1, 2013

This 'law of love' is identified in many different ways--for example, in Wayne Baker's bestseller, " Achieving Success Through Social Capital " (Jossey-Bass), this law of love in the workplace is described as the "law of reciprocity.". John Agno: Can't Get Enough Leadership. Your Social Media Press Kit. Related articles.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Still, studies show that leadership programs are failing at preparing future leaders with the skills needed to excel in today’s global business world. Manage high-performing teams. While making global mindset a priority starts with upper management, executive staff aren’t the only people involved in implementing it across a company.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Other successful companies build upon social interaction to develop innovative concepts leading to disruptive product and service developments. Most people have learned not to listen to what management says but to pay attention only to what is going on around them on a day-to-day basis. Leadership in a Gladiator Culture.

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Chartered Management Institute

JANUARY 28, 2025

Written by Gary Cookson Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email A new book by Gary Cookson explores the skills managers need to make hybrid working work. I often explain face-to face-management as a very sensory experience. Managers can see and hear (and perhaps even smell) what their team are doing.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Jay Galbraith writes that “the long-term human resources role is to build social capital by creating richly connected interpersonal networks across the organization” (2000, p.119). This methodology should include a strategic focus on increasing global leadership competencies through travel, teams, training and transfers.

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LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

Soren is the Managing Principal of InnovationPoint, an Adjunct Professor within the Imagineering Academy at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and the author of the new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs. The other domain is leadership.

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LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

Soren is the Managing Principal of InnovationPoint, an Adjunct Professor within the Imagineering Academy at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and the author of the new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs. The other domain is leadership.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 7, 2011

In short, trust is a form of social capital that enhances performance between individuals, within and among groups, and in larger collectives, like organizations, institutions and nations. Mike Figliuolo: One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

A new paper from INSEAD documents a trial undertaken to test a new training program for entrepreneurs that aims to help improve their competencies in areas such as networking, human capital management and business model innovation. This paper suggests in some ways, it most definitely can.

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

That''s why on Amazon every management book with the word "surprise" in its title is about how to avoid or prevent the phenomena. The leapfrogging life cycle traces the path to breakthroughs by describing the leadership and organizational dynamics involved at various phases over time. John Agno: Can''t Get Enough Leadership.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 26, 2011

The formula for success = your human capital (what you know and can do) times your social capital (who you know and who knows you) times your reputation ( who trusts you ). In a world of connection and transparency , getting your "hows" right means making the shift from managing reputation to building it in everything you do.

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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.

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HR Digest

JULY 28, 2021

In a recent McKinsey Global Survey on the future of workforce needs, nearly nine in ten executives and managers say their organizations either face skills gap already or expect gaps to develop within the next five years. Organizations are now facing a learning curve as managers scramble to lead their teams virtually.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Do you manage your company’s reputation? Why is it important to manage your reputation? Lida Citroen , an expert in the field of reputation management, has a resource to anyone who wants tips to build a reputation that can withstand negative influences and becomes stronger over time. Do you consider your personal brand ?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2024

Social capital —the value gained when people work well together — is just as, if not more, important than human or financial capital. At a time, when financial and human capital are in short supply, it is critical that healthcare leaders focus on building social capital to improve performance and gain competitive advantage.

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Steve Farber

MAY 15, 2015

We know that leadership is a decision not a position, and we have to work really hard to get better at it. We’ve been exploring the convergence of three essential qualities: Human Capital–individuals’ attributes, talents, capacities, and contribution. You have an important mission. Are you ready to take the next LEAP?

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

But – and here’s the key management lesson – the vice-chancellor noticed her nervousness and put Jummy at her ease with the classic open-ended question: “is there anything else you’d like to ask me?” The network gap Sadly, power imbalances don’t always play out so well.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2020

We simply have no precedent for how to plan for what may come next, or for managing the pace of the upheaval. The response must recognize financial reality, but also sustain social capital by respecting all stakeholders. Family businesses and wealth are under threat like never before.

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Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 10, 2024

The great risk of the hybrid age is “ disengagement and diminished collaborative intent leading to declining social capital… denuding firms of the very energy and vitality we know creates innovation and ultimately advantage for the firm.” Please login to the left to confirm your registration and access the article.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2024

There is a common leadership misconception that merely encouraging team members to voice their opinions will foster an environment of openness. This article outlines several tactics that managers can use to provide alternative paths that feel safe for employees to say what’s on their minds.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

But effective cooperation, particularly in a setting as complex as health care, requires more than a resolve to play well together; it requires leadership to explicitly recognize the need to build social capital across the organization, and implement a strategy accomplish it. Ultimately, the key to success is authenticity.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

University of Utah put case management right in the intensive care units. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

University of Utah put case management right in the intensive care units. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

We have come to call these kinds of managers “entrepreneurs inside” because though they work within an established organizational context, like entrepreneurs, they have ideas that upset the status quo. Entrepreneurship Innovation Leadership' How do I do this within a pretty traditional organization?”.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

I once hired a McKinsey consultant into a country manager role in a developing region. He did and was soon appointed to manage the company's entire international business from headquarters. You will fit more easily into the culture, retain part of your social capital, and have larger chances to recover if you fail.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

"The guiding concepts in this view of leadership are openness, self-election, continuous prototyping, robust platforms, and low coordination costs. Leadership skills focus on community building, consensus building, mediation, commitment, and humility.". Socialize your underused assets.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2011

In practical terms, what this means is that management should not seek to maximize the wealth of any one of its major constituencies — customers, investors, employees, and society (in the form of obligations to governments). Of course, to realize these benefits we require not only self-interest but also well-functioning markets.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful. Company Fit.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

And brand stewardship can no longer be under the exclusive purview of marketing departments and brand managers. A 2008 survey of chief marketing officers and brand managers by the Association of National Advertisers found that 64% say their brands do not influence decisions made at their companies.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The free-flowing exchange, in which employees, partners, and collaborators gain social capital through their creative input, has helped propel growth. Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series). He asked his management team to join him in a six-month prototype of the company’s open “Leadership Community.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Our decades strangely resemble each other – and have big implications for how individuals and companies may want to rethink a whole host of issues, from career management and pensions to mobility and leadership criteria. How will companies manage longer lives and postponed retirements? of all new businesses in the U.S.

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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. How to Manage a Toxic Employee. Being left out can conjure up grade school emotions of being excluded or feeling like your opinion and input aren’t valued. You and Your Team Series. Office Politics. Annie McKee.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Answer These 5 Questions Think of your boss — your direct supervisor or manager — and consider each statement below. In one case, two operational leaders at Kelly Services, a workforce solutions firm, created a Business Resource Group to promote leadership development and increase employee engagement.

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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.

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