Leveraging Networks: A Guide for Public Managers Working Across Organizations

Author: Robert Arganoff
Abstract:

Provides ten different lessons for using networks to manage in the public sector: represent your agency and the network, share the administrative burden, operate with an agenda, recognize other team members expertise, stay within the network's jurisdiction when making decisions, exercise flexibility without losing purpose, be creative, be patient, recruit, stress incentives.

Source: http://www.businessofgovernment.org/sites/default/files/LeveragingNetworks.pdf
Area of Best Practice: Direct training
Funding Source of Best Practice: IBM Center for the Business of Government