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Becoming a Network Linchpin

Coaching Tip

Since all the work in every organization is done through relationships, it makes great sense to utilize technology to allow people to connect and collaborate easily and effectively. The best leaders build the ‘social capital’ of their organizations,” says Dr. Wayne Baker, author of Achieving Success Through Social Capital (Jossey-Bass, 2000).

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Job Search and Person-to-Person Networking

Coaching Tip

Person-to-person networking continues to be job seekers’ most successful tool, according to a study by Right Management. Certainly technology plays a growing role. But online social networking may not always be separate from traditional networking since one so often leads to the other. Therese Marie Boldt: Yes!

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Job Hunting Success Tips

Coaching Tip

Says Adam Cobb, assistant professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania: “The best way to get a job now is the same as in the ’70s and the ’80s—word of mouth.”. Technology has had a somewhat perverse effect on job-hunting. Technology allows [companies] to search for keywords.

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

The Horizons Tracker

What’s more, if these barriers aren’t overcome, it’s likely that this group will suffer most from any technological disruption. It’s perhaps no surprise, therefore, that just 13% of workers without a college degree manage to transition into a better-paid job within ten years. Social capital.

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Reskilling the Future of Work

HR Digest

History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that technology has created large employment and sector shifts, but also widened job opportunities. Organizations are now facing a learning curve as managers scramble to lead their teams virtually. Coronavirus has changed the way Americans work. What should companies do now?

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Work Together or Fail Alone

Coaching Tip

A hundred years ago, the Wright brothers could build an airplane all by themselves," says Ben Jones, a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, at Northwestern University. And they have to collaborate, because the most interesting mysteries lie at the intersection of disciplines. "A

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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations. So, even if the outposts manage to absorb local value they usually fail to propagate it back to the organization, which means they fail on the ultimate reason for their existence.