Social Capital Mentor

What is Social Capital?

Social Capital is the quality by which a person’s perceived savvy, acumen and grace provide access and opportunity in the world. Ultimately, it is the solvency of the Self. David Bransten Director, Documentarian Like the other, more commonly understood forms of capital (financial and intellectual), Social Capital can be accrued or banked. Like all sciences, it can be [...]

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Social Capital Gives You Financial Capital

One of the most important thing to realize about social capital is that it gives you the capacity for action. That capacity for action often takes the place of other forms of capital, like intellectual or financial capital. Tim Bosworth oversimplifies things when he says in this post that social capital is “basically who and how [...]

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Turning Social Skills Into Money

In my last post, I talked about Carolyn Davis’ social skills. One of the reasons we hired her to cater our party was because she’s great with people; she’s got great social skills. One of my regular readers reminded me of something that I want to be clear about. Here at Social Capital Mentor, we don’t [...]

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