Category Archives: Blog

Want Impact? Networks Trump Organizations

David Haskell shares a personal experience about the power of a dream, an impossible situation, and the capacity for networks to achieve what no one organization can do alone. This is an inspiring story of what can happen when networks are formed and effectively lead…..

The Tactics of Trust

Authors, David Sawyer and David Ehrlichman, discuss how to accelerate the trust building process that is essential to any ambitious collaboration effort — even among highly diverse groups of stakeholders…

What Collaboration Looks Like

Nate Vander Stelt shares the many ways he sees GACX members effectively modeling intentional collaboration. In this blog post, he shares several common themes he sees running across many different kinds of effective collaborations.
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3 Mantras + 3 Small Moves for Advancing Networks

Net work can be complex and messy. At the same time, there is something profoundly intuitive, grounding and humanizing about the web of relationships we work in. Here are a few mantras and small moves to help network leaders build new connections…

Get Off Your Island – Building Effective Kingdom Partnerships

Every island has its own climate, natural resources and culture, but there are few islands that can “survive” without associating with other islands. In the past, time, money and resources were spent to building up each individual work, but it’s time to stop working on our own and begin building healthy kingdom partnerships….

The Seven Keys to Creative Collaboration

It’s easy to think of creativity as a solitary endeavor. But some of the best creative work is collaborative. This video explores the seven keys to creative collaboration. While focused on “design teams”, it applies equally to a network’s working groups…

Thinking like a Network 2.0

In this blog post by Curtis Ogden offers the following list of network principles to guide thinking and action. When applied, they can result in big differences and network effects…

The Partnering Mindset

Brent Fulton, the Founder of China Source, talks about the values and mindset present in successful partnerships he has seen from years working in China.

5 First Year Networking Lessons

Ellen Livingood shares five lessons she learned / relearned as a founding member and leader of a diaspora outreach network in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In this article, she reflects on the networking challenges — common to many networks — that they encountered their first year of operation.

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