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Pull : Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Harvard Studies in Business History SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (456 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674039872
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: PullDDC classification:
  • 650.1/3
LOC classification:
  • HD69
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Connections at Work -- 1 Social Capital and the Mechanisms of Success -- 2 Organizing and Synthesizing Social Capital -- 3 Social Rungs on Corporate Ladders -- 4 Contacts and Buffers -- 5 The Business of Integration -- 6 Strangers on the Ladder -- 7 Uncovering the Power of Pull -- 8 Social Tools for Self-Help -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: In retelling success stories from Benjamin Franklin to Andrew Carnegie to Bill Gates, Laird goes beyond personality, upbringing, and social skills to reveal the critical common key--access to circles that control and distribute opportunity and information. She contrasts how Americans have prospered--or not--with how we have talked about prospering.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Connections at Work -- 1 Social Capital and the Mechanisms of Success -- 2 Organizing and Synthesizing Social Capital -- 3 Social Rungs on Corporate Ladders -- 4 Contacts and Buffers -- 5 The Business of Integration -- 6 Strangers on the Ladder -- 7 Uncovering the Power of Pull -- 8 Social Tools for Self-Help -- Notes -- Index.

In retelling success stories from Benjamin Franklin to Andrew Carnegie to Bill Gates, Laird goes beyond personality, upbringing, and social skills to reveal the critical common key--access to circles that control and distribute opportunity and information. She contrasts how Americans have prospered--or not--with how we have talked about prospering.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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