Social Capital Mentor

Deep Networking - Work Together With Others

My brother Charles recently called me to talk through a small, but common, networking dilemma: there were two networking-related events on the same night and he was trying to decide which one to go to. He’s getting into the green-building industry and both events would expose him to people in that field. He was leaning [...]

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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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30% More Productive

I was on an airplane a few days ago reading an article in the February issue of Harvard Business Review (How Social Networks Network Best, by Alex Pentland). Alex is the director of human dynamics research at the MIT Media Lab and has been studying the way teams of business people work together. Here’s some mildly [...]

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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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Golden Advice for Using LinkedIn: Help People

I’m going to cut to the punch line. Remember the Golden Rule; help people with their career and they will help you. LinkedIn is great LinkedIn is the latest tool for business networking and it’s great. Really great. Of course, with anything that’s great, there’s no shortage of advice on how to use it well. Guy Kawasaki’s [...]

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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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