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5.0 out of 5 stars
AN EARLY BUT STILL VERY INSTRUCTIVE RESOURCE BOOK,
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This review is from: Networking, the First Report and Directory (Paperback)
Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps are also co-authors of Virtual Teams: People Working Across Boundaries with Technology, Virtual Teams: Reaching Across Space, Time, and Organizations With Technology, The Age of the Network: Organizing Principles for the 21st Century, etc.
This 1982 book's subtitle is, "People Connecting with People, Linking Ideas and Resources." Specifically identified areas of common interest were "Health and the Life Cycle, Communities and Cooperatives, Ecology and Energy, Politics and Economics, Education and Communications, Personal and Spiritual Growth, (and) Global and Futures Networks." They wrote in the Introduction, "'Networking: The First Report and Directory' is two books in one: It is a report on networking and it is a directory of networks." Given the age of the book, some of its data are quite out-of-date,' of course. But the information contained is nevertheless often still quite interesting. Here are some quotations from the book: "Networkers clearly state that they are grappling with very real 'horns of dilemmas'; they feel that our planetary predicament 'necessitates a choice between two ways,' and they are working to find more suitable 'options' that better suit their 'preferences.'" (Pg. 5) "Holistic health and women's health, two supposedly obvious allies in the search for a new workable model of human health, have remained separate, and in some instances, at loggerheads... these two important movements have not always shared information sufficiently to jointly address some of the most important issues facing us... The women's health movement ... has been primarily focused on the critique of existing practices within the medical profession." (Pg. 23) "Johnson was suffering from the networker's special malady---information overload." (Pg. 46) "The antinuclear movement ... has no leader, no hierarchy, no management. Should its work be done, the antinuclear network will disintegrate as quickly as it appeared." (Pg. 75) "Networking is the key to survival for all minority groups in the 1980s... Now is a crucial time for the networks among caring people to work together." (Pg. 101) "The human potential network is peculiarly American and very much the child of the postindustrial information age, in which an insight today can be a training session or a workship or even a book tomorrow... No one knows what the human potential really is... The motivating question---Where does it all end?---seems to be eclipsed by the belief that it never does." (Pg. 163) "Four ideas in the new paradigm of evolution are important to us in understanding contemporary change networks: emergence, inclusion, transition, and acceleration. The principle of emergence suggests that there are some qualities in networks that are clearly new in human history. The principle of inclusion suggests that earlier forms of human organizations are carried into future forms. The principle of transition ... explains the current period of confusion and also suggests that new networks are reaching back to earlier stages of human evolution in order to fashion a synthesis for the future. Finally ... it appears that terrestrial evolution is a process of progressive acceleration. Each cycle of stability and transformation ... is shorter than the cycle that went before." (Pg. 240)
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