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How Network Analysis Can Improve Your Collaborative Process and Prevent Burnout Network Strategy: Propel Organizational Agility and AlignmentHow Network Analysis Can Improve Your Collaborative Process and Prevent Burnout

TalentGrow podcast

By implementing network analysis, organizations can see how to be more strategic about collaboration and avoid overloading high-performers. And individuals can create more collaboratively efficient networks to buy back one day a week of their time—and be happier!

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Organizational Network Analysis Talent and Collaboration Network Strategy: Promote Rapid InnovationOrganizational Network Analysis, Talent and Collaboration

People Analytics and Future of Work podcast

The collaborative intensity of work has exploded, and nobody is paying attention to it. Network analytics make patterns of collaboration visible, allowing needed change to optimize individual group, team and organizational impact.

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A Bridge too far? How boundary spanning networks drive change and effectiveness Network Strategy: Propel Organizational Agility and AlignmentA Bridge too far? How boundary spanning networks drive change and effectiveness

Organizational Dynamics

Promising advances are taking place in accelerating change by activating hidden social networks in organizations, systems and cultures and enhancing their boundary spanning capabilities. Leaders who activate organizational networks greatly expand their capacity to adapt and manage change.

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How Top Talent Uses Networks and Where Rising Stars Get Trapped Network Strategy: Accelerate Role TransitionsHow Top Talent Uses Networks and Where Rising Stars Get Trapped

Organizational Dynamics

People who do well on three network dimensions are much more likely to be successful than those who pay little or no heed to their network. And, rising stars falter or get derailed entirely by not attending to their network. Learn the network traps that can snare high performers and steps to greater success.

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How to Catalyze Innovation in Your Organization Network Strategy: Promote Rapid InnovationHow to Catalyze Innovation in Your Organization

MIT Sloan Management Review

Many innovation programs fail to meet expectations, in part because they separate the innovation process from the informal networks needed to adapt and support an innovation. Executives can fuel the emergence of new ideas by creating collaborative contexts where innovation is likely to emerge.

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How ‘Who You Know’ Affects What You Decide Network Strategy: Elevate Personal Performance and Well-beingHow ‘Who You Know’ Affects What You Decide

MIT Sloan Management Review

Informal decision networks—both within teams and throughout organizations—can systematically bias the way decisions are framed and carried out. Network analysis allows leaders to see people are overloaded and where they are missing critical information and contributions.

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A Practical Guide to Social Networks Network Strategy: Promote Rapid Innovation, Propel Organizational Agility and AlignmentA Practical Guide to Social Networks

Harvard Business Review

Leaders can’t assume that more connectivity is always better or hope that collaboration will spontaneously occur in the right places at the right times. With a strategic view of collaboration, they can determine which network will deliver the best results and make investments that nurture the right degree of connectivity.

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