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Community Management

Lead Change Blog

A network organization is resilient and sustainable. One of the largest barriers in several organizations is that many managers still tend to think using hierarchical paradigms. What works better is transforming your organization into a network organization. What’s the alternative?

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Four Factors for the 21st Century

Lead Change Blog

So, the organization will continuously need to adapt to an ever-changing environment and need personnel who operate well in this (ever new) environment. Traditional command-and-control structures are gradually being replaced by collaborative ways of working, including concepts such as matrix organizations and network organizations.

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The Ins and Outs of an Executive Director Search

N2Growth Blog

Their ability to build relationships and establish strong networks is crucial in fostering collaboration and securing resources for the organization’s sustained growth. In essence, the executive director’s leadership and influence are vital in ensuring the long-term success and sustainability of the organization.

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Strategy Execution - The Un-Idea

Six Disciplines

Companies operated alone, rather than being part of partner networks or plugging their people into informal relationships. It was an ineffective way to operate, especially after the information technology revolution took place, and to break out of it, companies needed management ideas.

Execution 101
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The Networking Challenges Female Entrepreneurs Face

The Horizons Tracker

Tapping into one’s network for human capital is vital for any aspiring entrepreneur, and so the ability to develop and cultivate that network is crucially important. Developing those connections is often difficult however, not least for women operating in traditionally male fields. Two types of exchange were identified.

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20 Essential Terms that You Need to Know to Transform Your Business

N2Growth Blog

Learning Organization – A learning organization is one that acquires knowledge and facilitates the learning of its team members, in order to continuously improve, innovate, and transform. Work teams are formed to meet the demands of the organization.

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What Makes an Organization “Networked”?

Harvard Business Review

So much so that we see them as “the way things work” and forget that bureaucracies were once innovations too. Today, we live in a time of transformation every bit as colossal as what Weber saw a century ago: a shift from hierarchical to networked organizations. If it can fit on an org chart, it’s not a network.