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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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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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Putting Facebook in Perspective

Harvard Business Review

These new technologies allow anyone to connect to anyone and everyone, at any time — and there are already signs that the relationships we have with ourselves, with each other, and with our institutions are changing in response. Their social networks do this for them. Organizations: From Hierarchies to Networks.

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We Need Open Data To Change The World

Harvard Business Review

Here are two organizations doing just that. CrisisCommons relies on open data to let others quickly learn from each other to reach people in immediate need. When the devastating earthquake hit Haiti in 2010 they had a ready-made network of project managers and techies in cities all over the world.

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On a Consumer Watershed

Marshall Goldsmith

This trend means that leaders of successful organizations will need to develop different organizational structures, systems, and skills in order to meet these new customer requirements. Many technologies, such as computers, copiers, fax machines, and other office equipment are rapidly converging.

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business Review

Over the past few decades, not only has NASA delivered crucial technologies for society, such as water filtration systems, satellite-based search-and-rescue, and UV coating on eyeglasses, it has also evolved its dominant logic and business model. The challenges facing NASA. During the Apollo program NASA’s funding peaked at 4.5%