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The Invisible Network Strategies of Successful People: Counterintuitive Ways to Innovate, Execute and Thrive at Work Network Strategy: Elevate Personal Performance and Well-beingThe Invisible Network Strategies of Successful People: Counterintuitive Ways to Innovate, Execute and Thrive at Work

How do highly effective people build, maintain and leverage personal networks in ways that help them produce innovative solutions, execute work effectively and thrive in their careers? Based on interviews conducted with 160 leaders (80 men and 80 women) across 20 organizations, we identified twelve network lessons that invisibly differentiate these top performers.

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How Successful Women Manage Their Networks Network Strategy: Elevate Personal Performance and Well-beingHow Successful Women Manage Their Networks

We analyzed network data collected from more than 30 organizations and 16,500 people over 15 years and uncovered 4 BEST networking practices vital to women’s success. These practices, Boundary-spanning, Efficiency, Stickiness, and Trust- and energy-building, distinguish high-performing women from their less successful contemporaries.

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Accelerating Transitions Network Strategy: Accelerate Role TransitionsAccelerating Transitions: Initiate, Engage and Refine Networks for Success in New Roles

We present examples of people who have transitioned well by creating a productive network, quickly, and detail many small, effective actions that differentiate them from people who struggle or underperform. We also suggest ways organizations and managers can support new hires and newcomers to initiate, engage and refine their networks.

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Connect and Adapt Network Strategy: Accelerate Role TransitionsConnect and Adapt: Improving Retention and Engagement in the First Five Years

Contrary to popular wisdom, a bigger network is not usually a better network when predicting retention or performance. Rather, what matters is helping employees develop the right network at the right time. We explain how taking a network development (or social capital) approach, can improve how organizations onboard, connect and integrate employees for long-term productivity and retention.

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Network for Agility Network Strategy: Execute Critical Work Through NetworksNetworks for Agility: Collaborative Practices Critical for Agile Transformation

We introduce four practices that are essential for organizations’ successful agile transformation:

  • Select agile teams based on human and social capital.
  • Proactively manage connectivity with experts outside the team.
  • Manage team collaboration and energy/purpose as a network.
  • Simultaneously innovate work outcome and adopting network.
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Organizational Agility Network Strategy: Propel Organizational Agility and AlignmentOrganizational Agility How Targeted Network Investments Promote Organizational Responsiveness

Leaders often seek to promote agility through matrix-based designs or through the de-layering of formal structures. Unfortunately, these efforts are disruptive and often backfire. We show how organizational network analysis can help leaders make more targeted investments to enhance organizational agility.

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