Leading Through Strategic Conversations

This case study describes how a professional network evolved and computer technology facilitated its development into a worldwide organization with a critical mass of people in both industrialized and developing nations. These individualspractitioners and theoristsare innovators who build upon one another's strengths. It is a story about networked competencies and how interdependent businesses can participate. It is a story about how conversations, previously limited to written, time-delayed correspondence, can enable instant connections with a range of players from graduate students to senior executives. [Download PDF]