Welcome to N2N. Your N2N hosts are Peter and Ken Everett.
Furthermore, we think organisations of the future will be different. In particular, they will not only be good for business, they will also be good for people. This is just one reason why many of them will be networked organisations. Our own experience in building a networked organisation that spanned 30 countries tells us just this. Frankly, it surprised us. It turned out to be more resilient, leader-full and innovative than we had ever imagined. We eventually came to understand this was because of the design.
Since then, we’ve been hosting discussions with other network builders, and helping each other grow in the process. So we are definitely not alone. Our N2N community now has over 120 members, from 20+ countries.
the book | the author
Ken Everett proposes the network as the organization of the future, and he wrote this book, with the help of five colleagues, to help the architects of such future organizations.
What we do and why we do it
Think on Your Feet®
Firstly, we distribute a training workshop product, Think on Your Feet®.
Secondly, to do this, we built a network of around 300 colleagues in 30 countries.
Finally, we’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand what makes this organization so effective. Our video, Evolution of a Network Business, sketches in a couple of minutes some of what we discovered.
When we looked back on our experience, many of our breakthroughs came via network-to-network networking (or ‘N2N’). For example, Ken’s first introduction to Think on Your Feet® was by a colleague from another network, Wilson Learning. This led to an attempt to become consciously competent at what we’d been doing informally for years which led to a lot of learning; learning we want to share, and grow.
We Design Network Organizations
Most recently Ken penned his experience in a book called Designing the Networked Organization.
In addition, we now host a bi-annual N2N conference with hubs of other international networks and shorter N2N meetings in Australia every 3 or 4 months. Finally, we’ve launched this website to extend N2N’s reach.
Why we do it
Simply, it feels the right thing to do. By following our instincts, N2N has taken on a life of its own. The colleagues who have joined us encourage us to keep going. And that feels good. We continue to benefit from their generosity, and trust. And we are having fun.
Does this mean we’ll turn N2N into a business? We honestly don’t know. If this happens one day, we’ll be very pleased about it. But if we do, it will be when we find a business model that is compellingly beneficial for all involved.
But for now, we are happy to continue this journey, and experiment. We feel we don’t yet understand where it will all end up. If you’d like to join us on this journey of discovery, please contact us.
Rapid access for you to: