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- Condition
- PublishedOn
- 2007-11-02
- ISBN
- 9780674025530
- EAN
- 9780674025530
- Book Title
- Pull : Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
- Perfect
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Business & Economics, History
- Topic
- Economic History, Personal Success, United States / General
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 18.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 464 Pages
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Redefining the way we view business success, Pamela Laird demolishes the popular American self-made story as she exposes the social dynamics that navigate some people toward opportunity and steer others away. Who gets invited into the networks of business opportunity? What does an unacceptable candidate lack? The answer is social capital--all those social assets that attract respect, generate confidence, evoke affection, and invite loyalty. 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 explains how civil rights activism and feminism in the 1960s and 1970s helped demonstrate that personnel practices violated principles of equal opportunity. She evaluates what social privilege actually contributes to business success, and analyzes the balance between individual characteristics--effort, innovation, talent--and social factors such as race, gender, class, and connections. In contrasting how Americans have prospered--or not--with how we have talked about prospering, Laird offers rich insights into how business really operates and where its workings fit within American culture. From new perspectives on entrepreneurial achievement to the role of affirmative action and the operation of modern corporate personnel systems, Pull shows that business is a profoundly social process, and that no one can succeed alone.
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674025539
ISBN-13
9780674025530
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59775598
Product Key Features
Book Title
Pull : Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Topic
Economic History, Personal Success, United States / General
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Business & Economics, History
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
18.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
48
Lc Classification Number
Hd69.S8l35 2007
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[A] highly readable appraisal of the social dynamics that navigate some Americans towards opportunity while steering others away...Pamela Laird has written an important book about the social forces that have blocked individual endeavour., [A] highly readable appraisal of the social dynamics that navigate some Americans towards opportunity while steering others away... Pamela Laird has written an important book about the social forces that have blocked individual endeavour., Laird offers an illuminating analysis of how exceptional achievers have combined individual talent with social assets... to rise in society., Laird offers an illuminating analysis of how exceptional achievers have combined individual talent with social assets...to rise in society., Laird provides a comprehensive perspective and rich historical insight into the importance of social dynamics in achieving career success. She retells the success stories of famous Americans ranging from Horatio Alger, Benjamin Franklin, and Andrew Carnegie to Bill Gates and beyond to make the point that none were simply 'self-made men.', Laird provides a comprehensive perspective and rich historical insight into the importance of social dynamics in achieving career success. She retells the success stories of famous Americans ranging from Horatio Alger, Benjamin Franklin, and Andrew Carnegie to Bill Gates and beyond to make the point that none were simply "self-made men.", This eye-opening book helps explains why so many individuals-and nearly all African Americans and women-were so long left out when they exhibited the same intelligence and ambition as those who 'made it.' In emphasizing the social forces that blocked pathways up, in addition to those which held people down, Laird presents an exciting new way to think about success., Laird's historical perspective yields fresh insights into the history of American business practices and offers an original perspective on the challenges made by feminism and civil rights in the last decades of the twentieth century., This eye-opening book helps explains why so many individuals-and nearly all African Americans and women-were so long left out when they exhibited the same intelligence and ambition as those who 'made it.' In emphasizing the social forces that blocked pathways up, in addition to those which held people down, Laird presents an exciting new way to think about success., A bold, ambitious, and important book. Laird shows that the key to understanding how people succeed is social capital-the networks, mentors, role models, manners, connections, and understanding of codes of behavior that enable some Americans but not others to advance., A bold, ambitious, and important book. Lairdshows that the key to understanding how people succeed is social capital-the networks, mentors, role models, manners, connections, and understanding of codes of behavior that enable some Americans but not others to advance.
Table of 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
Copyright Date
2006
Dewey Decimal
650.1/3
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Harvard Studies in Business History Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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