It’s nice to say that “your network is your net worth.” If social capital really does connect to monetary capital, then you should have opportunities to perform a balance transfer between the two.
Two researchers, Roberto Fernandez and Emilio Castilla, focused on this question and studied the value of referral bonuses in the workplace. They hypothesized [...]

A friend of mine, Peter Winick, recently made the following observation.
“When you’re ten years old, you can only go as far as your bike will take you. Anything further than two miles may as well be two-thousand miles.”
Some of us are completely comfortable jumping on a plane for a business meeting. Myself, I’ve done that [...]

Today, I wrote a column on the Invincibelle blog about an interesting piece of research published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers looked at people who were quitting smoking, and they located several interesting findings:

A person’s decision to quit smoking is significantly influenced by their network–not only the people they know but also [...]

When you’re tring to build a new relationship with someone, it’s tempting to talk about yourself and topics you’re comfortable. That’s especially true when you’re meeting face-to-face with someone for meals or coffee in town.
However, if you’re trying to build a connection with someone in another state or across the world, you actually have [...]