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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. Celebrate results.

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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. Targets, management on result, and control remain the magic words. Why would you want to do that? What’s the alternative?

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Lead by Providing Bearing, Room, and Backup

Lead Change Blog

How do you lead your team in today’s organization? A pure form of self-directed teams is a paradox, in that it would allow a team to go in a direction that doesn’t really fit with the organization. Obviously the Why of the team will need to serve the Why of the organization! Learning, in turn, stimulates mastery.

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Four Factors for the 21st Century

Lead Change Blog

What’s good for the organization. If coworkers will change profession that often, what then is good for the organization? How do you attract excellent personnel—and more importantly, how do you keep your best colleagues on board? To what degree do you implement a sustainable view on your organization?

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Care for a white-water ride?

N2Growth Blog

Forecasts often lead to disappointments, both for management – employees – shareholders and other stakeholders. Both leaders and employees have to learn to anticipate market and political trends more quickly and adapt to them. Developments of global network organizations. Strong increase in mergers and take-overs.

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

N2Growth Blog

It influences the way work is organized, executed and informs the ways in which quality measured. Empowerment – Employee empowerment occurs when management shares information and a certain degree of autonomy and responsibility for decision-making, allowing employees to take initiative and make decisions to solve problems.

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

Strategy Driven

He wasn't going to throw me into the 10 foot deep water immediately, but he did make the impact known that I had to learn how to eat what I kill. A higher level membership that attracts more of the high-level business owners and managers. Rotary has been a great organization to participate in. But, everyone is different.