Almost everything that happens in a firm flows through informal networks builts by advice, coordination, cooperation, friendship, gossip, knowledge, and trust. In this book, Ron Burt builds upon his celebrated work on network analyses to explain how these informal networks functions and the role of network entrepreneurs who have amassed social capital. Burt shows that social capital is a critical element in business strategy. Who has it, how it works and how to develop it have become key questions as markets, organizations and careers become more and more dependent on informal discretionary...

BOOK REVIEW BY: Tin Can Sailors - The National Association of Destroyer Veterans
Reviewer: Bernie Ditter
Overall Rating: Four Stars: Highly recommended. An excelllent book.
Ron Burt writes a compelling story about his older brother's heroism and injuries received at the hands of Kamikaze direct hits on two ships, about his brother's recovery from those injuries and about his own efforts to gather the information necessary to support the process to have his brother awarded the Navy Cross and Silver Star.
His brother, Pete Burt, was on the USS OMMANEY BAY (CVE-79) when it...