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Leading Through Smart Networks

In: Complexity and the Nexus of Leadership

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  • Jeffrey Goldstein
  • James K. Hazy
  • Benyamin B. Lichtenstein

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A key theme throughout this book, one that sharply distinguishes it from other works in the genre of leadership/management/ organizational theory, is that complexity is not something to be avoided or somehow damped down but instead is capable of yielding great dividends if it is embraced in the appropriate manner. In this chapter, we offer many insights from burgeoning research into social networks, one of the most intense and promising areas of complexity science, in order to show how leaders can reap benefits through transmuting their organizations’ complex social networks into smart networks that play a inimitable role in constructing ecologies of innovation. Smart networks contain this potential since it is through them that the identification and dissemination of experiments in novelty can become the requisite seeds of innovation. At the same time, smart social networks enable rapid adaptation to a relentlessly changing environment.

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  • Jeffrey Goldstein & James K. Hazy & Benyamin B. Lichtenstein, 2010. "Leading Through Smart Networks," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Complexity and the Nexus of Leadership, chapter 0, pages 147-176, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-10771-7_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230107717_7
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