Harnessing Your Staff’s Informal Networks

Harnessing Your Staff’s Informal Networks

How can you effectively manage communities of practice?

Author(s): Richard McDermott, Douglas Archibald

Publisher: Harvard Business Review

Date of publication: 2010

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Summary

Communities of practice have been on the upswing since the 2000s. They indeed seem like a good way to support the circulation of knowledge and ideas among employees. However, it isn’t always easy to ensure the success of this type of community. Building on several years of feedback from experience, the authors draw out the management principles that seem to have been most effective to date.