Pull
Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin
Published on 1. July 2009
457 pages
978-0-674-03987-2 (ISBN)
Description
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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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA; London
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-03987-2 (9780674039872)
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Book
10/2007
Harvard University Press
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Person
Pamela Walker Laird is Professor of History at the University of Colorado Denver.
Content
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
