Two tablets displaying different data visualizations. The top tablet shows a radar chart with categories such as Economic, Cultural, Knowledge, Reputational, Organisational, Institutional, and Social, comparing two data sets labeled Amount and Institutional. The bottom tablet shows a scatter plot with points connected by lines, representing various categories including Economic, Cultural, Knowledge, Symbolic, Institutional, Organisational, Reputational, and Social, with axes labeled Amount and Value.

Political Capital

Identify the sources of power to get things done

Forms of Political Capital

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  • Economy icon

    Economic Capital

  • culture icon

    Cultural Capital

  • social icon

    Social Capital

  • symbolic icon

    Symbolic Capital

  • Knowledge icon

    Knowledge Capital

  • Reputation icon

    Reputational Capital

  • Organization icon

    Organizational Capital

  • Institution icon

    Institutional Capital

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  • What forms of political capital are most valuable in your context?

  • How do you leverage forms of political capital to get things done?

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Chris Moos

Dr Chris Moos

Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Chris teaches on Political Capital at Saïd Business School and collaborated with Thrive Matters on the Political Capital tool. Chris’s insights on the forms of political capital and how leaders can use these forms to affect organizational decisions, actions and outcomes is the basis for tool and workshops on political capital for emerging leaders.

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