INTRODUCING
NETWORKS
• Why Networks?
• Riding the Transitional Wave
• What are Teamnets?
• Co-opetition: When Competitors Cooperate
• Benefits of Boundary Crossing
FOUR
AGES OF ORGANIZATION
• From Nomads to Networks
• Fire Department Mixes Modes
• Network the Organizational Ages
• Thinking the Network Way
INTERNET
WORM STORY
• Only Connect
• VirusNet Self-Organizes
• Press and Perceptions
REPORTS
FROM THE FRONTIER
• Up the Organizational Scale
• The Large Life of the Small Group
• Making A Large Organization Seem Small
• The Elegantly Networked Enterprise
• Alliances Not Mergers, Thanks
• Beyond Alliances: Megagroups
FIVE
TEAMNET PRINCIPLES
• Network Principles in Brief
• Pattern Language for Organizing
Social-Technical Networks
• Technology of the Information Age
TEAMNET
POCKET TOOL
• The Purpose of Purpose
• Declaration of Independent Members
• Link City, Planet Earth
• Climbing through TeamNet Leadership
• The Hierarchy and the Lower-archy
PRINCIPLES
TO PRACTICE: STARTUP
• Startup: Assessing the Situation
Common View?
• Colleagues?
• Connections?
• Voices?
• Inclusive?
PRINCIPLES
TO PRACTICE: LAUNCH
• Launch: Planning the Work
• Clarify Purpose
• Identify Members
• Establish Links
• Multiply Leaders
• Integrate Levels
• Fasten Your Seat Belt for Take-off
• Purpose as a Natural Resource
• Focus on People
• The Technology of Social Capital
• Everyone a Leader
• The Strange Benefit of Hierarchy
Copyright © 1995 Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps.
Extracts used with permission from Oliver Wight Publications, Inc.
