Network Leadership
Navigating and Shaping Our Interconnected World
- 278 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
Across organisations and communities there are leaders who manage to get things done through their ability to understand how a network of individuals connect, who to talk to and how to bring people together in the right constellation of effort. These are "network leaders".
Network Leadership enables readers to identify and make the most of informal social and organisational networks in order to challenge the status quo effectively and facilitate greater engagement and productivity. Not only will the research in these chapters help you become a better leader and manager of your own team or department, it will also help make you a better network leader, effecting positive change across teams, and departmental and organisational boundaries. Leaders who facilitate action do so through four key practices: they understand the social systems in which they work; they have convening power, uncovering and connecting underlying movements and giving voice to something that is worth listening to; they lead beyond their formal authority; and they possess the power of restless persuasion and a capacity to thrive in complexity and crises.
This book is invaluable reading for those who have mastered the basics of leadership but wish to take the next steps. It is particularly relevant to organisations and managers dealing with the geographic separation of business units, change, innovation, matrix management, project or portfolio management and other cross-departmental projects.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I: The Leadership Stage
- Part II: Overview of Network Leadership
- Part III: Understanding the Social System
- Part IV: Convening Power
- Part V Leading beyond Authority
- Part VI: Restless Persuasion
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1: A Brief History of Social Network Analysis1
- Appendix 2: Leader Biographies
- Index