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The Bay Area Thinking Network is delighted to kick-off 2012 with a holiday reception and book signing. Your next leadership cluster is a configuration of Northern California graduate business schools, the Future of Networks and your global community. The format is conversational. All are welcome and encouraged to join in the conversation.

Hult International Business School
San Francisco

Abstract

Does your business feel more complex than five years ago? Are you having to make more and faster decisions? Are your teams scattered over multiple locations and struggling to define common goals? Are your technology options changing?

If you immediately said yes, or even stopped to consider the answer to at least one of these questions, then please join us for a unique leadership event: The Plugged-In Manager.

You will open your evening with refreshments and networking with your peers. Then Professor Terri Griffith of the University of Santa Clara Leavey School of Business will lead a conversation on how to develop plugged-in approaches to achieve sharp improvements in your activities.

Included in your registration is a copy of The Plugged-In Manager.

Enterprise or startup, products or services, local or global, your organization and people need to collaborate and co-create. Working jointly with other organizations to take on opportunities is critical. Effective sharing and collaboration among employees, customers, clients, and partners has never be so important.

Meanwhile, the people you work with are far more diverse in terms of age, technological sophistication, and cultural background than just a few years ago.

To be effective in this changing world, you need to understand how to work and manage in a way that brings together:

• The way you organize your work
• The knowledge, skills and abilities of your people
• The technology tools of work and not just computer technology.

You can't make a change to one of these three dimensions without making an adjustment to the others as well. The Plugged-In Manager offers the key balanced approach. It allows you to master these principle domains for optimal effectiveness and positive outcomes.

The Plugged-In Manager optimizes common issues such as:  

• Pay and performance
• What social media to use
• Productivity and innovation
• Size and form of your teams
• Reliability in your support and services

Delegates will learn the optimal combinations people, structures and technology to deliver solid foundations for your individual business and organizational requirements.

Following this session you will be able to:

• Assess your starting position
• Evaluate your options
• Outline a plan for improving your situation
• Learn to share these ideas with others

Who should attend?

People at all levels in your organization need to get more plugged in. Individual contributors use their plugged-in expertise to decide the best way to do their work. Members of work teams use plugged-in skills to help the team find the best combinations of people, tools, and organizational processes for a particular task. Managers use plugged-in approaches to build organizations that are effective and efficient. Organizational leaders use plugged-in abilities to create a vision for the future.

The Plugged-In Manager is a networking event. All are welcome. This network cluster is particularly well-suited to entrepreneurs, startups, investors, managers, executives and, above all, leaders. 

Conversation Leader

Terri L. Griffith (B.A. UC Berkeley, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon) is a Professor of Management at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business. From her location in the heart of the Silicon Valley, Terri helps executives and organizational design and technology & innovation management M.B.A. students understand how to build, manage, and improve their organizations.

Terri is the author of The Plugged-In Manager, published by Jossey-Bass. Based on over 25 years of experience and research, dozens of interviews and case studies, she shows that you can't manage through people, technology, or organizational process alone.

To succeed, especially in today's dynamic environment, you need to mix these three dimensions together. The Plugged-In Manager presents how people from companies as diverse a Zappos, Socialtext, and Nucor Steel have been able to create effective mixes, and how you can do the same.

Terri is an expert on how you make combined technology and organization decisions and then work these changes into your organization. Terri’s blog is Technology and Organizations.

Registration, Discounts, Substitution, Cancellation and Refunds

Note: secure online event check-in is required in advance with Mogo Tix. MogoTix sends your event ticket directly to your cellphone. Registration is extremely fast, secure and painless.

All discounts are built in. There are no complimentary passes. Participant substitutions are allowed. The substitute information must be received by 2 p.m. the day before the program. There are no cancellations or refunds. Unused tickets may be used at a future event for a period of one year.

About

The Future of Networks is an action/research network for 21st Century business leadership. It is an agnostic, open, worldwide community, founded in 1998. Stakeholders consists of vendors, academia, technologists, users, developers, managers and leaders.

Testimonials tell the story best. The singular goal is to expand leadership capacity for emerging business network methods, techniques, applications and technologies. This is achieved through action/research, conversation, collaboration and Next Practices.