Social Capital Mentor

How To Ask For Help When You’re in a Hurry

In my last post, I provided a couple points about making it easy for others to help you (my motorcycle battery had died and the scooter shop helped me out). In the example, I talked about the importance of not being rushed. Some of you might be thinking, Well, that would be nice, but sometimes I [...]

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Make It Easy For Others To Help You

Social capital isn’t complicated. At it’s core, it’s pretty basic. It’s about how you treat other people and how you are treated in return. Here’s an example. Two days ago I turned the key in my Triumph, and all I got was “click”. Dead battery. Fortunately, I was parked right in front of the San [...]

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Three Simple Things to Look for When Hiring

“Just hire the most qualified candidate.” I’ve told myself that many times. Sounds simple enough. However, as anyone in hiring knows, you soon realize that identifying the “best” candidate is much harder than it seems. If it was just about hard skills that you could put a metric on, that would be great. You wouldn’t [...]

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