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Lead by Providing Bearing, Room, and Backup

Lead Change Blog

A pure form of self-directed teams is a paradox, in that it would allow a team to go in a direction that doesn’t really fit with the organization. So even when dealing with self-directed teams, or with a network organization , you as leader will always have the responsibility to provide bearing.

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Face-to-face networking is still the key to connections.

Strategy Driven

Little did I know that 20 years later some of the people that I met then would be my best friends and longest term clients. Here is John’s networking and leadership history in the Charlotte Chamber: Business Growth Network. Rotary has been a great organization to participate in. It is not a sales networking organization.

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What Makes an Organization “Networked”?

Harvard Business Review

As Moises Naim describes in The End of Power , travelling around the vast country for three months, he believed that it represented “the last time in the long-lasting history of mankind that so favourable conditions for a free and grand development will exist.” If it can fit on an org chart, it’s not a network.

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On a Consumer Watershed

Marshall Goldsmith

This trend means that leaders of successful organizations will need to develop different organizational structures, systems, and skills in order to meet these new customer requirements. These new challenges include: Moving from a more hierarchical organization toward a more “networkedorganization.

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The Metamorphosis of the CIO

Harvard Business Review

Eventually, businesses became department stores, specialty stores and malls, and finally, today''s e-businesses and networked organizations that support them. The downplayed downside of this convenience is that there is usually no long-term profit from such ventures. Any need or demand can and will be met faster than ever.

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