Driving Results Through Social Networks: How Top Organizations Leverage Networks for Performance and Growth

Part III. ADAPTATION: How To Promote Flexibility Through Network-Centric Human Resource Practices

In much the same way that innovation is a vital process for rejuvenating products and services, talent management is a vital process for renewing an organization's creative energies and human capital. In this, the final part of the book, we encourage leaders to evaluate their own and their employees' network strategies and structures with an eye to how they can enhance (or retard) the personal ability to adapt. Networks themselves also need to adapt, to changing market conditions, demographic shifts, and the emergence of new technologies. In simple terms, you don't just design a network and walk away. Networks are dynamic, just as organizations and ...