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

Strategy Driven

I asked John to tell me what networking has meant to him and his business over the last 20 years. Here’s the background of how to succeed as a local business networker from arguably the toughest sales category on the planet: insurance. How to hire, fire, train, and market business. Entrepreneur of the Year Awards.

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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. Christine’s team and organization thrived under her new leadership, boosting revenue tenfold and setting industry benchmarks for performance. Leadership Leadership development Managing yourself'

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Putting Facebook in Perspective

Harvard Business Review

As I've written in earlier posts, brands need to learn how to attract people into orbit around their brand by generating social gravity. Organizations: From Hierarchies to Networks. Organizations are also experiencing a shift as employees become more empowered and connected. Leadership: From Control to Empower.

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Why the Problem with Learning Is Unlearning

Harvard Business Review

In every aspect of business, we are operating with mental models that have grown outdated or obsolete, from strategy to marketing to organization to leadership. I also had to learn how to drive on the left side of the road. The hard part was unlearning how to drive on the right. How to Create an Exponential Mindset.

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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. CEOs don''t think CIOs understanding the business , and how to apply IT in new ways to benefit the business. The Rise of the CIO. IT management'

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business Review

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating. Adapting to change.