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Do Our Networks Harm Our Performance At Work?
Our professional network is obviously hugely important to our success at work. Research from ESMT Berlin highlights, however, that we often build networks that actually harm our performance. The...
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Gender Differences In How We Network
We may assume that we all tend to network in much the same way, but research from ESMT Berlin suggests that men are more likely to leverage co-location and face-to-face interactions to build...
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Are Conferences Still Worth It?
The pandemic period saw most physical conferences shift online, and while 2022 has seen more events happen in person again, we are still some way below the peak. Research from Northwestern University...
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Making Quick Connections Is Key To Success For New Hires
One of the notable challenges for new hires during the Covid pandemic was making the kind of connections that are so crucial to success in their new job. Research from the University of Minnesota...
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Why Your Network Could Have Negative Consequences
It’s widely recognized that our network is hugely important in terms of our professional success. Traditionally, this narrative suggests that we need friends in the right places to help us get a leg...
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Shrinking Networks During Covid-19
Maintaining our networks during the coronavirus pandemic has had obvious challenges due to the restrictions on meeting people. Indeed, recent Yale research suggests that both our personal and...
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How The Sexes Network Affects Their Labor Market Performance
Our social network is clearly hugely important in terms of our success (or otherwise) in the labor market. For instance, it’s widely believed that large and loosely connected networks give us better...
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Schmoozing With The Boss Helps Men Get Ahead
Politics are a common presence in most workplaces, but these relationships don’t emerge equally. New research from Harvard Business School highlights how schmoozing with your boss tends to be far more...
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Helping The Unemployed Build Networking Skills
Networking is a vital skill for any of us, but it’s seldom something that people enjoy doing. It’s a particularly valuable skill for those who are out of work, and new research from the University of...
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Do Women-Only Networking Groups Harm Female Entrepreneurship?
Research published last year highlighted the challenges women face when it comes to building their network. The research reveals that men who were in the right networks were around 1.5 times as likely...
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The Networking Challenges Female Entrepreneurs Face
Tapping into one’s network for human capital is vital for any aspiring entrepreneur, and so the ability to develop and cultivate that network is crucially important. Developing those connections is...
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Overcoming The Network Gap To Build Socially Diverse Workplaces
Diverse workplaces are valuable in all manner of ways, so it’s perhaps no surprise that MIT research finds that the more diverse a workplace is, the more profitable it is. A second study, from the...
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Do Generalists Have Poorer Social Networks Than Specialists?
For all the talk of disruptive innovation, it more often occurs in an iterative fashion, with innovators standing on the shoulders of those who went before them. Indeed, data shows that most patents...
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Why Understanding People Is The Key To Supporting Rural Innovation
One of the core hypotheses underpinning the Brexit vote has been the disproportionate attention afforded to urban areas at the expense of smaller towns and rural areas who have felt left behind and...
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For Accelerators To Succeed, Startups Need To Spread Their Wings
In a recent post I looked at some of the talent issues surrounding startup success. Human capital is vital, and with many startups consisting of the founding team, and the founding team alone, the...
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Making The Right Connections At Work
Malcolm Gladwell famously shed light on the role of ‘connectors’ in his best selling book The Tipping Point. He regarded connectors as, obviously, people who know a lot of people, but more...
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Why Human Capital Is The Key To Startup Success
Recently I supported the DEX Innovation Centre in Liberec, Czech Republic during a mentor day that involved helping several of their startups from across Europe in their attempts to scale up. The...
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Research Reveals Gender Differences In Networking Success
It’s a widely held truism that your social network is vital when climbing the career ladder, and various figures are produced to illustrate the number of jobs that are filled as a result of word of...
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Research Explores How Effective Are Women’s Social Networks
Networking is widely believed to be crucial to success both in our careers and in life more generally. A recent study suggests that women tend to have poorer social networks, and examines some of the...
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Making Connections At The Airport
This year has seen a marked increase in the number of overseas trips I’ve taken, and whilst air travel can be a draining experience, there are a number of apps that aim to make the whole affair more...
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