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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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Hundreds of Employee Engagement Ideas

Michael Lee Stallard

The results were compiled in an e-book entitled The Top Tens of Employee Engagement.

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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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Lead by Providing Bearing, Room, and Backup

Lead Change Blog

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.

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Four Factors for the 21st Century

Lead Change Blog

Traditional command-and-control structures are gradually being replaced by collaborative ways of working, including concepts such as matrix organizations and network organizations. Probably the most important sustainability quality is the capacity to influence. Influence means getting things done.

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Reinvent Opportunity, Restore Satisfaction

Women on Business

LaMae leads Accenture’s Mentoring Program for Women and a diversity networking organization for the company’s Financial Services group, a community of 100 Accenture employees, all of whom come together regularly to discuss and share career development strategies and to organize community-service events related to diversity.