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Leading Towards a Network Organization

Lead Change Blog

In a previous blog , I wrote about why you should transform your organization into a network organization and promised to write about how to lead that transformation. To recap, a network organization is all about communities based on connectors and content. Acknowledge your position. Get your team on board.

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To Change Your Strategy, First Change How You Think

Harvard Business Review

Southwest’s innovation was to focus on low fares with one-class cabins, homogenous fleets, and point-to-point routes. Therefore his mental model was not how to gain market share from other airlines, but how to create a completely new market for air travel. ” Other carriers fly airplanes that carry people.

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Leaders, Drop Your Masks

Harvard Business Review

There were no real conversations about the bigger picture, how to get better results through clever resourcing or innovation. She has since transitioned away from executive life and now serves as an independent director on several boards and president of a think tank and networking organization for top female CEOs.

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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. Only a small percentage came up with anything that was truly innovative. What does it mean to view innovation as the only competitive advantage?

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business Review

Though many would call that decade NASA’s golden age, we’d argue that NASA’s innovation and influence is even greater today. NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration.

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Value-Based Health Care Is Inevitable and That’s Good

Harvard Business Review

Whether providers like it or not, health care is evolving from a proficiency-based art to a data-driven science, from freelance physicians to hospital-employed physicians, from one-size-fits-all community hospitals to vast hospital networks organized around centers of excellence. Leading Health Care Innovation.