Insights

Does your organization struggle to pass information between teams, or to foster interdepartmental collaboration? If so, you could be contending with workplace politics, but it’s more likely that you have an issue with your organization’s social network. The index on which your position in the workplace network and your ability to access and utilize workplace relationships effectively is known as the Social Quotient (SQ).

Though Social Quotients have been driving success stories for hundreds of years, its concepts and tools to measure have developed only recently. It began when the Medici family seized new opportunities and gained power in Renaissance Florence through the deliberate and methodical cultivation and maintenance of their relationships with other families. This may even be the source of the old adage ‘it’s not what you know, but who you know.’