Social Capital Mentor

Preparing for a Crisis

You won’t hear “social capital”, “networking”, or “business lunch” anywhere in Jean Chatzky’s clip from the Today show. I’m including it for a one main reason: all the suggestions that Jean makes about preparing for a crisis have to do with long-term thinking, not short-term, which is how we want you to think about developing [...]

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What Makes Us Different

We’re not academics. While we enjoy intellectual debate, we’re not doing this to make a point. Mark, Craig and I want to help people through Social Capital. All of us had to learn to negotiate the business world the hard way and want to save others from the same pain. Success for us isn’t measured [...]

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Avoiding the Chopping Block: Internal Networking

When people talk about networking, they are usually referring to something external. If they’re a hard skills-type of person like an engineer or scientist, they tend to think of networking as an activity for “salespeople” and other less-evolved beings. This is absolutely the wrong attitude, especially for the current time. In our current times of regular [...]

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Is it Popularity or Social Capital?

Craig forwarded me an interesting posting in the Wall Street Journal concerning the importance of office popularity. You might think you left the world of cliques and in-crowds behind when you left high school. You’d be wrong. The benefits of being popular extend all the way into the adult workplace, based on research in the latest issue [...]

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Develop Your Social Capital; Turn Contacts into Relationships

Tony Adam just wrote a great post about the quality of your business relationships on his awesome blog. I’ve been thinking all day about his words and I can’t emphasize how much I agree. I think we have the same goal here: to help people realize the power of Social Capital. It’s definitely not about [...]

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College Degrees aren’t Enough - You Need More

Building your social capital helps you get more financial capital (money, jobs, clients, projects, partnerships). This is now more important that it has been in years. If you happen to need convincing, read on to get the latest report on our economic backdrop. This is from Bloomberg a couple hours ago: Job Losses in U.S. Spreading [...]

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Build Relationships: Acing an Interview Starts Way Earlier than you Think

If you’re preparing for a job interview one week out, you’re late. You’ve got to prepare earlier. And the most important part of that preparation isn’t about hard skills… I just read this post from Silicon.com called “Ask the Experts: How do I ace that job interview?” Three experts answer the question, which is a nice [...]

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