The Hidden Power of Social Networks

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Building Bridges

Initiating, Developing, and Maintaining Networks

I think it is helpful to think of where relationships are in terms of cycles or development. My leadership team has pulsated over the fifteen years that I have been in charge. When employee participation was the rage, the “team” grew quite large, really a committee at one point, so that everyone had a say. In retrospect I am not sure I really worked with those people well, mostly because I didn’t know what they knew or what to rely on them for. Even in that larger team context I still only listened to certain people I trusted. Now the team is back to a more manageable size, and we know each other’s strengths and weaknesses, but my guess is that we are locked into another set ...