Pull : Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin.
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- HD69
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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