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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. What’s the alternative?

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0710 | Writing the Org Chart in Pencil with Liann Eden

LDRLB

Using an innovative organizational design, Eden is able to bring the brightest consultants to client projects by forming bespoke teams. How networked organizations are the way of the future. In this interview, we talk about how the model developed and why writing the org chart in pencil is the way of the future.

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

N2Growth Blog

Management Reporting – A management reporting system allows leaders to monitor the progress of the organization towards the achievement of its goals. Networked Organization – A networked organization is comprised of cross-functional teams that enable work to be completed most efficiently and effectively.

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Identification and Overidentification in Organizations

Management Craft

Within the workplace an individual might have unique connections and have different identities with their team, lunch group, project team, function, union, gender, age group, and others. Would your organization and work group benefit from several strong and productive identifications occurring at once?

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We Need Open Data To Change The World

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, Tim Hwang and a few friends in Cambridge found themselves questioning the costs associated with raising a few thousand dollars to launch an online project. Each month the group would put $1,000 to the best idea from artists, community organizers, and techies. They've funded art projects, wi-fi routers, and community events.

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How Leaders Can Let Go Without Losing Control

Harvard Business Review

Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates.” It’s a distributed governance model for networked organizations. These Principles work hard, just like we do.