Driving Results Through Social Networks Robert L. Cross reveals how organizations can improve their performance and growth through social networks. This book is intended for managers and executives who want to increase their impact by effectively leveraging these often invisible networks.
Overview
This hands-on work describes how top companies accelerate performance improvements, cost reduction, and innovation by applying network analysis. Cross and his colleague Robert J. Thomas base their insights on experience with more than one hundred leading organizations and government agencies.
Product Specifications
- Author: Robert L. Cross
- Series: Jossey-Bass Leadership Series
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Imprint: Jossey-Bass Inc., U.S.
- Publication date: 2009-01-29
- Number of pages: 240
- ISBN: 9780470392492
- Theme: Business strategy
- BISAC: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Strategic Planning
Author
Rob Cross is affiliated with the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia, specializing in organizational behavior, and leads The Network Roundtable, focused on applying network ideas to achieve business results.
Robert J. Thomas is Executive Director at Accenture's Institute for High Performance and an expert in leadership and organizational change.