Building Networks
In today’s world, collaboration, partnership and ‘adding value’ are important to any recipe for success of a non-profit organization. But you can’t do it alone. In order to achieve results and impact, organizations and their leadership must expand beyond their traditional partners and stakeholder groups in order to create synergistic and innovative relationships that energize, excite and lead to change. By developing broad based networks, leaders of organizations can increase their influence, relationships and ability to deliver on their organization’s mission. Building a network can be daunting for many. This presentation will help you to develop a framework for building your own network, and in doing so you will see that building a network is not the same thing as networking, that it really is better to give than to receive , and how two “no’s” do, in fact, make a “yes”.
Five Good Resources
- Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
- The Republic, by Plato
- In Praise of Slow: How a Worldwide Movement Is Challenging the Cult of Speed, by Carl Honore
- Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Getting Even, by Woody Allen – some light relief after Crime and Punishment!