Note from Beth: I’ve wrote about the importance of building resilience in networks given the complex and connected environment we live in today. So, when Pat Brandes from the Barr Foundation sent me this thought piece on building resilience of networks, it resonated on many different levels. NetworksThey could not cook. MORE >>

We don't design the outcome, we design the processes of interaction and monitor for emergence. Merging informal networks post merger or re-organisation. non-narrative technique, s ocial network stimulation creates self-organising merged communities across silos. Birds and flowers (illustrated), host and symbiote and so on. MORE >>

Sloan Management Review has a great interview with Andy McAfee on What Sells CEOs on Social Networking. ” They understand the power of weak ties in enterprise social networks. Sure, there are fears of losing control, the fact that hierarchy and social networks are not comfortable bedfellows, and the inevitable paradigm drag. MORE >>

” This was one of the reasons why I wanted to write the book, “ The Networked Nonprofit ,” with co-author Alison Fine back in 2008-09.    I noticed a big change in 2010, the year the book was published. ”   Does this signal that working in networks been become normal in the nonprofit sector? Networks MORE >>

Businesses around the world are transforming into extended enterprise networks but their training departments are stuck in the previous century. In Social Learning The process of Innovation WorkscapingThe Twenty-First Century Corporation. In the pursuit of trying to ?x Workers were mere cogs in those machines. Twenty-?rst MORE >>