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. Connectors come from all layers of your hierarchy, know who’s who, know many people, have contacts throughout the organization, and get things done by connecting people to each other.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 8, 2019

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. Okay, but what is a network organization and how and why does it work? So part one of creating a network organization is ensuring online and offline (social) networking is in place.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 22, 2010

1 Comment so far Frode H on July 27th, 2010 David Zinger’s network is amazing.

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Management Craft

JANUARY 30, 2011

I found an interesting article in the Journal of Management called, Identification in Organizations: An Examination of Four Fundamental Questions by Blake Ashforth, Spencer Harrison, and Kevin Corley. Identification occurs when we define oneself in terms of the group/organization/sub-group - we become ONE with that which we identify. "I Would your organization and work group benefit from several strong and productive identifications occurring at once?

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

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. So even when dealing with self-directed teams, or with a network organization , you as leader will always have the responsibility to provide bearing. Obviously the Why of the team will need to serve the Why of the organization!

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 21, 2016

Whenever you begin business transformation work, it’s important to establish a common vocabulary that everyone in the organization can grasp and incorporate into their respective vocabularies. Work teams are formed to meet the demands of the organization.

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LDRLB

MARCH 9, 2016

How networked organizations are the way of the future. Leadership Podcast leadership networks organizational Design teamsLiann Eden is the co-founder of Eden McCallum, a consultant firm with no consultants.

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 24, 2011

Companies operated alone, rather than being part of partner networks or plugging their people into informal relationships. Innovation and intrapreneurship, Total Quality Management, Six Sigma, reengineering, networked organizations — these were all conceptual handles that allowed executives to justify and develop new breakthrough practices.

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Women on Business

MARCH 8, 2011

If everyone in your organization sees themselves as a mentor – and a mentee – a company has the chance to increase employees’ skills levels, confidence and satisfaction. 4. Expand employee networks.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2015

How important is face-to-face networking to sales, relationships, career, and success? I asked my commercial insurance agent, John Cantrell, to give me a synopsis of his networking strategies. He is a MAJOR business networker in Charlotte. You are a model networker.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2015

I went to a networking meeting last week hosted by a formal networking organization called Business Network International. HISTORY: I began my networking career more than 25 years ago, so I consider myself a relatively sophisticated meeting attendee.

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Steve Farber

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Here are the three main criteria I use when picking events to attend, followed by seven I wholeheartedly recommend that you consider for 2017: The Content – I want a conference with highly valuable, actionable content based on a sound curriculum, regardless of whether it’s coming from the speakers, networking, breakouts, or any other aspect of the program. The folks in the crowd with you are also there to learn, network, and try new things.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 14, 2013

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. Likewise, leading telecommunications and other equipment providers now have to compete by offering “network solutions” involving many products formerly sold separately. In a hierarchical organization, leaders can more easily give orders and expect people to respond.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Most of today’s organizations were built on Weber’s principles. 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. The truth is that networks are informal structures.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

When it comes to creativity, organizations are a lot like people. Instead, they complement one or two creative minds with diligent executors, savvy networkers, organized project managers, and, above all, hardworking implementers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Ever since the publication of Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline , 25 years ago, companies have sought to become “learning organizations” that continually transform themselves. In every aspect of business, we are operating with mental models that have grown outdated or obsolete, from strategy to marketing to organization to leadership. They look to create network effects through ecosystems of customers, suppliers, and partners.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

Every organization today wants to achieve both alignment and autonomy. Every organization has its mission, goals, and strategies to tell people where to go. It’s a distributed governance model for networked organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

” We are in the midst of a massive migration in business models, from managing assets and delivering services to creating technologies and orchestrating networks. According to research by one of us (Barry), technology- and network-based business models are more profitable, enable faster growth, and are more rewarded in the marketplace. ” GE recognizes that a networked business model requires a networked organization. Tim Evans for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2013

How can leaders spark and sustain change in themselves and their organizations? Christine’s team and organization thrived under her new leadership, boosting revenue tenfold and setting industry benchmarks for performance.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2017

An “accidental insider” is a well-meaning employee who is tricked by adversaries or competitors into revealing passwords or unintentionally installing malicious code onto organizational networks. According to a study performed by Accenture and HFS Research , “2 out of 3 respondents reported experiencing data theft or corruption from within their organizations.” Trick #3 – Gaining Network Access Through Personal Devices. JakeOlimb/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2013

Social sector organizations are in the business of changing the world, and the information they collect and use should be the catalyst for making that happen. Here are two organizations doing just that.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

As you read each one, ask yourself how well they apply to your organization or work. Their social networks do this for them. Organizations: From Hierarchies to Networks. Organizations are also experiencing a shift as employees become more empowered and connected. Formal hierarchies are giving way to informal networks. After 9/11, the military realized it was now fighting a network of "super-empowered, hyper-connected" individuals.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

In a recent Harvard Business Review article we explore how companies require three mutually supportive capabilities to fully exploit data and analytics: an ability to identify and manage multiple sources of data, the capacity to build advanced analytic models, and the critical management muscle to transform the organization. Initially, the marketing and network organizations, rather than cooperate, blamed one another for the findings.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

And we have also seen a vast amount of enterprise and energy brought to bear at the individual level through education and networking organizations, many of which are designed for and focus solely on women. What is missing is intervention at the organization level.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating. 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.

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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. As Erik Brynjolfsson said, to succeed in the future, " We must reinvent our organizations and our whole economic system.". This will lead to new business models, new processes, more meaningful business interactions, innovation, improved and faster decision making, and a more agile organization.

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