Leading outside the lines: How to Mobilize the (in)Formal Organization, Energize Your Team, and Get Better Results

In Conclusion

 

 

 

 

At this writing, we are emerging from one of the most severe economic downturns in the past century. People are poking their heads out of the bunkers, hoping to continue business as usual. But the previous ways of working—well, we all know that they just won’t work anymore. The world continued to change in these past few years, and we’re only starting to see the implications on a global scale. China will soon have the largest number of English speakers of any country in the world. We now generate more information in one year than we have in the past five thousand. Facebook has a population larger than most countries. The number of text messages sent in a year exceeds the number of people on the planet.

Yet much of the ...