Engineering Velocity: Unlocking Value Constellations
The most transformative leaders understand that building ever-larger organizational infrastructure is counterproductive. Instead, they leverage resources and achieve impact by engineering robust, trust-based networks.
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Jane Wei-Skillern, a Senior Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, whose network leadership research has been downloaded over 31,000 times, reveals the four counterintuitive principles driving systemic success. This is a complete contrast to conventional growth thinking.
👉 Learn how to earn decentralized influence to maximize resource effectiveness and generate sustainable, scalable impact.
Paradigm Shifts:
📌 Mission before Organization: Success is achieved by prioritizing a shared strategic objective over traditional organizational metrics, such as budget or internal infrastructure growth.
📌 Trust over Control: Shifting from building internal hierarchy to establishing deep, relational foundations with trusted peers and collaborators.
📌 Humility as Brand: Rejecting centralized brand dominance and resource accumulation in favor of leveraging shared intelligence across the broader ecosystem.
📌 Constellations not Stars: Systemic impact is maximized when leaders collaborate to build robust, enduring networks, rather than seeking individual organizational dominance.
Ecosystem Impact:
📌 Large organizations often struggle with internal politicking and learning barriers between headquarters and field offices.
📌 Network leadership minimizes resource redundancies and increases velocity.
📌 Leaders who reject the status of being the single "founder" or having the "best ideas" are better positioned to listen and observe intelligence from every corner of the world.
📌 Robust networks generate organizational success more efficiently, effectively, and sustainably.
Strategic Shift: Executives must audit whether investments prioritize accumulation or acceleration - through the engineering of high-trust, decentralized partnership ecosystems. Success hinges on designing a constellation structure that optimally distributes value and knowledge.
The most resilient Ecosystemic Futures are driven by influence through connection, not dominance through control.
Guest: Jane Wei-Skillern, Senior Fellow, Center for Social Sector Leadership, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Host: Marco Annunziata, Co-founder, Annunziata Desai
Series Hosts:
Vikram Shyam, Vik Strategic Solutions
Dyan Finkhousen, Founder & CEO, Shoshin Works
Ecosystemic Futures is the Shoshin Works foresight series with NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration heritage.