So, how do you #innovate and #learn effectively in a #network?

First, you invest in #trust in the community.

Then, as your level of trust and consequently openness increases, opportunities will arise for you to understand and solve together bigger and bigger challenges. How does this differ from #hierarchies and #markets?

Well, in these your first job is to understand and solve the challenge on behalf of the others (and not waste their precious time). And then your job is to sell the solution to them (which requires getting their trust).

Four key ingredients of #trust.

1. Good will: Trust begets trust and mistrust begets mistrust. If you assume others have bad will and they should earn your trust, you will withhold your trust and create a cycle of non-trust. People do bad things, but do they *want* to?

1/ So find the good the others are after. Trust that there is good will in everyone. Find it. Show that you trust this good in the other, and create a 'trust begets trust' cycle.

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So, wrote a #book:

#Managing (in) #Networks - Learning, Working and Leading Together.

What's in the book? #Thread
More info: managingnetworks.net

Here we go...
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1/ In the book I study:

What are networks?
What kind of networks are there?
What are the key elements of a vibrant network?
What kind of leadership is required?
What steps and tools will be beneficial?

Plus extras and a comprenesive framework for network appraisal.

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