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

by Wayne E. Baker

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.

Genres: Business

256 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 2000

About the author

Wayne Baker is Robert P. Thome Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Management and Organizations at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. He currently serves as Faculty Associate at the Institute for Social Research and Faculty Director of the Center for Positive Organizations. Baker is a frequent guest speaker, management consultant, and advisor and board member of Give and Take, Inc., developers of the Givitas collaborative technology platform. He has published numerous scholarly papers, four books, and articles appearing in Harvard Business Review, Chief Executive magazine, and MIT Sloan Management Review. He earned his Ph.D. from Northwestern University and was a post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard University. He resides with his wife, son, and Birman cat in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Reviews

[Fleur D'souza · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good insights

Liked the method for assessment of networks and identifying if they are open or closed. Some good practical tips. Would have benefited from more on actual network building practices that work.

[Angela · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was really just confirming what I already know about networking.