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Harvard Business Review

Agility requires the integration of different capabilities and perspectives. Managing an array of collaborative players as part of a network can help organizations be more agile.

Harvard Business Review

Our understanding of what leads to professional satisfaction is often misplaced. Many of us strive for a meaningful job, an impressive title or a sizable salary at the ideal company. In doing so, we drastically undervalue the importance of relationships, although research shows that people, not the perfect job, lead to fulfillment.

Harvard Business Review

What’s the best way for a new hire to start making connections in an organization? The most effective strategy is not creating a large network or relying on a mentor to make introductions. Instead, take a more selective, less-superficial initial approach.

Forbes

Most people assume meaningful work is the key. But research shows that people tend to overestimate the importance of what they want to do. Instead, they should be focusing on who they work with every day.

Wall Street Journal

Offices demand collaboration like never before. People who don’t set some limits could start falling behind, hurting their company and hating their job.

Organizational Dynamics

Most organizations use a human capital approach to retention. Despite doing an excellent job of onboarding, many lose their best employees. Organizations can take a network approach to engaging employees, well after initial onboarding, for better outcomes.

Harvard Business Review

Some female leaders establish strong networks and win greater influence and more-senior positions as a result. A study based on data from 16,500 women and men identified four characteristics that distinguish the networking behaviors of more-successful women—they were efficient, nimble, boundary spanning and energy-balanced.