How Leaders Create and Use Networksвђќ

Strategic Leadership

Knowledge Management

“How leaders create and use networks”

By Herminia Ibarra and Mark Hunter

The article “How leaders create and use networks” was published in the Harvard Business Review in January 2007. The authors, Herminia Ibarra and Mark Hunter, raise the conclusions of their two-year-study about the "leadership transition" in the career of thirty managers. By leadership transition, they mean the challenging moment for managers when they have the opportunity to go up in the hierarchy and to become leaders.

What has the most attracted Herminia Ibarra's and Mark Hunter's attention was the importance of networking in managers' career