New Multinational Network Sharing

This book employs a network-centric approach to the new field of multinational leadership and networksharing. Networks go beyond teams but may include teams of various types from homogeneousproject teams to multinational strategy teams and every type of team between. Conventionalwisdom was that nothing larger than a relatively small team could be led effectively because thenumber of relationships between people is about one half of the square of the size of the team. For ateam in which every member depends on every other member the number of interdependent relationshipsbecomes overwhelming with relatively small team sizes. Fortunately recent technicaladvances in network analysis and multicultural cooperation have been developed to rescue us frommind boggling bombardments of everyone trying to communicate over all others at once. Merelythinking about such a Kafkaesque situation hurts our heads. Armed with these two breakthroughsfairly large networks both national and multinational can be led effectively with appropriate selectionand training. This book furthers our attempts to make functional networks perform their promise of becoming superteams.