Achieving Success Through Social Capital: Tapping the Hidden Resources in Your Personal and Business Networks: Tapping the Hidden Resources in Your Personal and Business Networks - Couverture souple

Baker, Wayne E.

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ISBN 10 : 1118602595 ISBN 13 : 9781118602591

Editeur : Jossey-Bass, 2012

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Book by Baker Wayne E

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

Why do some people prosper while others struggle? The difference is more than what they know. It′s also who they know. Successful people know how to improve their wealth, health, and happiness by creating rich social capital, tapping the hidden resources in their business, professional, and personal networks.

Achieving Success Through Social Capital is your hands–on guide to success through building and using your social capital. You′ll learn why rich social capital produces higher pay, faster promotions, better jobs, breakthrough ideas, new business opportunities, and profitable companies. Rich social capital can even make you luckier. You′ll also learn why good networks are essential for your health and emotional well–being, and for a meaningful life even a longer life.

With his 1994 business bestseller Networking Smart, Wayne Baker established himself as a leader in the social capital field. In this new book, he incorporates the latest findings about social capital into an empowering, practical, step–by–step program. He shows you how to move beyond the myth of individualism to the recognition that we are all connected and that connections are the keys to success. He guides you through the process of evaluating the quality of your current networks, improving your networks by applying dozens of proven practices, and using your social capital to invoke the power of reciprocity, helping yourself by contributing to others.

Baker has helped thousands of people, companies, and associations discover the power of social capital, take charge of their networks, and create the vibrant networks they need to support their missions and achieve their goals. His books, workshops, and business courses enable people to learn, apply, and benefit from the universal principles of networks.

Whether you′re an entrepreneur with a growing business, a corporate executive trying to manage change, or a free agent in transitiondiscover the power of social capital. Learn to value connections, reinvent your networks, and create blockbuster results. This book will show you how.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A Book in the University of Michigan Business School Series You can build it. You can use it. You′ll prosper if you do. Discover a step–by–step program for tapping the hidden resources in your business, professional, and personal networks: your social capital. Here, an expert on building connections shows how building rich social capital produces higher pay, faster promotions, better jobs, breakthrough ideas, new business opportunities, and profitable companies.You′ll learn how to develop your own social capital and use it to attain your personal and professional goals and, in the process, enhance your own health and emotional well–being.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Jossey-Bass
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1118602595
• ISBN 13: 9781118602591
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 258