dense web of relationships
I have a business school colleague, Mark Frisse, who is brilliant about any number of things.
One thing we often joked about was the various systems of esoteric knowledge, the most often cited, The Illuminati. And what better place to talk about esoteric knowledge than Business School?
I am thinking about Mark, esoteric systems and how we frame things as I prepare for a presentation next week about “models of collaboration.”
It has been my general experience that collaboration gets used some places and in other it is a way of saying… we will do thing my way and act like that is a shared vision…
Or it gets treated as some esoteric practice, one that requires initiation in to secret knowledge and practices.
From Wiki:
Rosabeth Moss Kanter talks about leaders who recognise that there are critical business relationships “that cannot be controlled by formal systems but require (a) dense web of interpersonal connections…”[1]
Mark works with health care issues and government. “Dense web of relationships” makes sense there.
In my own work with individuals and organizations, the first step is identifying these; call them assets, call them stakeholders, I tend to think of them as those we share relationships with.
I am mindful this week of the religious observances of two of the primary religious traditions; Judaism and Christianity. The gathering together, for observances, meals and other aspects of the observances express this richness.
Dense web of relationships – who is in yours?