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Leading a Network Doesn’t Have To Be Like Herding Cats

  • Government Executive
  • Michael J. Keegan
  • 2016

This article from Government Executive discusses an IBM Center for the Business of Government report  that examines “collaboration within the context of homeless policy networks … While this report specifically investigates the role of leading in continuum of care (CoC) homeless programs and the leadership behaviors that matter in achieving successful collaborative outcomes, the lessons are broadly applicable to other networks involving multiple government and non-government players.”

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