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Build a Simple System to Achieve Success

Coaching Tip

By being selective as to who we let into our social networks, we retain the ability of instantly collaborating with many people across time zones and borders. The foundation of network technology is how the people we connect with think about the collaboration process. . Those networks that violate the law of reciprocity die.

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The Serendipity Machine

Mills Scofield

So Seats2meet.com invented a currency for nonmonetary, nontransactional exchange, aptly calling it social capital. It is an attitude of openness and sharing that anyone operating within a social network needs to have anyway. ” Clearly, paying with social capital doesn’t exclusively mean paying Seats2meet.com.

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

The Horizons Tracker

This isn’t a problem just at holiday time, of course, as digital technology allows work to creep into our personal lives all year round. After a month had passed, they then completed a questionnaire that was designed to measure social capital development at work.

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Job Search and Person-to-Person Networking

Coaching Tip

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. Baker: Achieving Success Through Social Capital: Tapping Hidden Resources in Your Personal and Business Networks. Therese Marie Boldt: Yes!

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Well Connected People Get Results

Coaching Tip

Formula for Success: The formula for both personal and corporate 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). How People, Not Technology, Seal the Deal. . Relationships matter more than anything else.

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Job Hunting Success Tips

Coaching Tip

Technology has had a somewhat perverse effect on job-hunting. Technology allows [companies] to search for keywords. What all of the technological advancements have not done is to overcome the primary barrier to getting a job—which, from the employer’s standpoint, is being able to answer, ‘What type of worker will the applicant be?’?”

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