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Should Caring Be Part of Every Job description?

· 6 Comments · In Lessons Learned, Social Capital, Values

by: Brooke Allen

About a decade ago someone in accounting, or personnel, or wherever, asked me for job titles.

I said, “We don’t have job titles in our group.”

She went away.

Soon she was back saying that a new policy required that we have job titles, and that I had to give them [...]

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Can You Imagine Being a Hero?

· 35 Comments · In Ethics, Giving Help, Interviews, Life Skills, Motivation, Psychology, Social Capital, Values

Learning to be a hero is more important than you might think.

Article by Brooke Allen, Interview by Adrienne Rodney and Brooke Allen.

Last summer we interviewed Dr. Phillip Zimbardo about his Heroic Imagination Project.

Before we met Dr. Phillip Zimbardo [...]

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It’s Not Just Who You Know

· 1 Comment · In Book Review, Life Skills, Social Capital

Book Reviews by David Anderson and Eric LaRue

Tommy Spaulding has built a successful career by being a leader and teaching others to be leaders. In his book, It’s Not Just Who You Know, Spaulding acknowledges that his success is greatly due to living the credo of Dale Carnegie’s [...]

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Whuffie

· 1 Comment · In Book Review, Interviewing, Networking, Social Capital

A book review by Paul Share

In The Whuffie Factor, author Tara Hunt tells the fascinating story of how, in recent years, entrepreneurs and companies of all sizes have used social networking to succeed in business. Hunt notes that traditional advertising is experiencing diminishing returns, as people learn [...]

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