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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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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. Why would you want to do that?

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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

Both leaders and employees have to learn to anticipate market and political trends more quickly and adapt to them. Some of those market trends are listed below, we all know them well, but have we all adapted our organizations? Developments of global network organizations. Strong increase in mergers and take-overs.

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7 Conferences to Grow Your Business in 2017

Steve Farber

So, how do you avoid the conferences that make you gag and only go to the ones that make you great? They want to learn. The folks in the crowd with you are also there to learn, network, and try new things. It’s a great opportunity to meet with and learn from investors and entrepreneurs. They want to teach.

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How’s your networking working? Better if you follow the rules.

Strategy Driven

I went to a networking meeting last week hosted by a formal networking organization called Business Network International. rules for achieving positive and profitable networking results : 1. I prefer to invest the majority of my networking time with people that I do not know. These are my top 9.5