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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. Identify community managers.

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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. Chamber New Member Orientation.

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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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To Change Your Strategy, First Change How You Think

Harvard Business Review

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. ” We are in the midst of a massive migration in business models, from managing assets and delivering services to creating technologies and orchestrating networks.

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Why the Problem with Learning Is Unlearning

Harvard Business Review

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. ” But in a networked economy, the nature of strategy, value creation, and competitive advantage change from incremental to exponential. Thinking Strategically.

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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.

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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 role of management can be broadly thought of as the processes that tie these components together to produce value. Most of these benefits have been achieved.

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