Network Strategy: Elevate Personal Performance and Well-beingA Smarter Way to Network: The Personal Networks of Successful LeadersHarvard Business Review
Successful executives connect with select people and get more out of them. Research shows how they create and maintain their personal networks and four steps to build a more effective network: analyze, de-layer, diversify and capitalize.
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Network Strategy: Accelerate Role TransitionsFaster Onboarding for Organizational SuccessWorkday’s In Good Company video series
Every year millions of people will start a new job, change teams or welcome a new team member. Network research shows how to help people be more successful in their new roles, faster.
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Network Strategy: Propel Organizational Agility and AlignmentHow Network Analysis Can Improve Your Collaborative Process and Prevent BurnoutTalentGrow 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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Network Strategy: Promote Rapid InnovationOrganizational Network Analysis, Talent and CollaborationPeople 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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Network Strategy: Propel Organizational Agility and AlignmentA Bridge too far? How boundary spanning networks drive change and effectivenessOrganizational 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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Network Strategy: Accelerate Role TransitionsHow Top Talent Uses Networks and Where Rising Stars Get TrappedOrganizational 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.
Network Strategy: Promote Rapid InnovationHow to Catalyze Innovation in Your OrganizationMIT 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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Rob Cross has studied the underlying network dynamics of effective organizations and the collaborative practices of high performers for more than 20 years. Through research and writing, speaking and consulting, and courses and tools, Rob’s network strategies are transforming the way people lead, work and live in a hyper-connected world.