How to be great together
Explaining what behavior is needed, and how to measure it
Topic
community
A collection of 27 issues
Is your community a small world?
Every community should be like a small world: a number of subgroups connected with each other through bridge builders
Every community has its own interaction patterns (structure)
With the right data, you can calculate if your community is a small world.
Forgetting people
Over time,
- you more quickly forget those people who are different.
- you build up faster new relationships with those who are different.
- you quickly forget about your old work colleagues after you changed your job.
you forget about those who are far away - geographically and emotionally.
On social support networks
Three studies on features of social support, and their link to wellbeing and turnover
Feeling connected to others
the more emotion can be expressed, positive and negative, the stronger the relationship between two people, and hence, the more connected two people feel.
Realize your vision by testing who influences your decisions
Mentor networks are a special way of looking at how your interactions impact your professional self. Networks are always around us. We go in and out of communities, interacting with its members. Every community has its special flavor. Something that this community is known for.
Human Capital vs Social Capital
Social capital is the connections you have, and the connections your connections have. Every connection is a link between two people. Imagine this link as an invisible string between people. However, the strength of this string depends on the mutual trust between the people.