IMAGINE IF MANAGERS BELIEVED THEY WERE MANAGING A NETWORK

Managers need to change the story they tell from: “We are managing an organisational tree” to “We are managing a series of interconnected networks.”

If you tell a story about managing an organisational tree, it makes sense to be on top, hierarchical and dominating. However if you tell a story about managing a network it makes no sense to manage in this way; either inside or outside the organisation.

Networks demand a completely different way of managing , based on network science and the laws of networks.

Bruce Holland