Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

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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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2015

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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

From the start, Southwest cofounder Herb Kelleher saw his competition not as other airlines but as alternative forms of transportation, whether cars, buses, or trains. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

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. It would take a network to defeat a network.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

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. Military Leadership Lessons for Training Doctors.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

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. NASA had to learn how to collaborate. much of ISS training and program management took place at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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