ABSTRACT

This book has offered models, examples, and techniques that are available to anyone who is noticing that our work, lives, and language now reflect the ways that we participate in multiple interdependent networks. I have provided a simple taxonomy of network types and a set of facets (structure, style, and value) that characterize and make each distinct, leading to design principles that puts the capacity to create and lead networks in our collective hands. I have shown how it is possible to examine networks using methods derived from principles of the sciences of networks and complexity, and I've offered a way of thinking about using these methods to guide networks through both dramatic and subtle transitions.