Team-building skills are in short supply: Deloitte reports that only 12% of the executives they contacted feel they understand the way people work together in networks and only 21% feel confident in their ability to build cross-functional teams.

Most roads, bridges, transit, water systems, the electric grid, and communications networks were installed 50 to 100 years ago, and they are largely taken for granted until they fail.

In many companies, the conventional form of organisation is giving way to a network of teams.

Even in the age of open-plan offices and social networks some work is best left to the individual.

Deloitte argues that a new organisational form is on the rise: a network of teams is replacing the conventional hierarchy ( ' , 等級體制).

You may need to start by encouraging your current network to help you identify your blind spots.

Take a look at your own network.

Build a wide and strong business network.

RelayRides and SnapGoods match up owners and renters; smartphones with GPS let people see where the nearest rentable car is parked; social networks provide a way to check up on people and build trust; and online payment systems handle the billing

As part of its 30 Ways in 30 Days program, It's asking communities across the country to help the more than 200 food banks and 61,000 agencies in its network provide low-income individuals and families with the fuel they need to survive.

That was the great thing about facebook you could create own little private network

The ultimate social network is still being mapped out, but Christakis says: "People are interconnected, so their health is interconnected.

It's important that we develop a social network when young

To stay healthy, one should have a proper social network.

In a 30-year study of more than 10,000 people, Nicholas Christakis of Harvard Medical School describes how all kinds of social networks have similar effects.

What does the author say about social networks

We should share our social networks with each other.

Andrew Heidrich, an education network administrator from Sacramento, plays World of Warcraft for about two to four hours every other night, but that's nothing compared with the 40 to 60 hours a week he spent playing online games when he was in college.

But having a large network and some promotional skills may be more crucial.

Deloitte argues that anew organisational form is on the rise: a network of teams is replacing the conventional hierarchy.

You may need to start by encouraging your current network to help you identify your blind spots.

Participation grows through friends and networks and if you realize that's how they're growing, you can start to take action and bring in other students, he said.

and obviously trade unions are one of the biggest civil society networks in the UK, he says.

Using existing civil society structures or networks is a more effective way of creating change.

The Love Food, Hate Waste campaign entered into a collaboration last year with another such network — the Women's Institute.

Existing social networks can be more effective in creating change in people's behaviour.

One free social networking website turned out to successful because it limited each posting to one hundred and forty characters.

referring to her new iPod Touch, which can connect to the Internet over a campus wireless network.

It is considering whether to issue iPhones but not sure it's necessary, noting that more than 700 iPhones were registered on the university's network last year

With the iPhone, those networks may provide faster connections and longer battery life than AT&T's data network.

Many cell phones allow users to surf the Web, but only some newer ones are capable of wireless connection to the local area computer network

Both the iPhones and the iPod Touch devices can connect to the Internet through campus wireless networks.

With the iPhone, those networks may provide faster connections and longer battery life than AT&T's data network

Recently, the UK National Stem Cell Network warned the UK could lose its place among the world leaders in stem cell research unless adequate funding and legislation could be assured.

When these people ran up against a technical problem, to which they'd have to turn to someone else for an answer, they'd e-mail and get an answer right away, because they built up a network of people before they needed them

Researchers at Cambridge University have found that nearly half of the social networking sites don't immediately delete pictures when a user requests they be removed.

The problem relates to the way data is stored on large websites: While your personal computer only keeps one copy of a file, large-scale services like Facebook rely on what are called content delivery networks to manage data and distribution.

But because changes aren't reflected across the content delivery networks immediately, ghost copies of files tend to linger for days or weeks

A global campaign has been launched to create a network of ocean sanctuaries to protect the seas in the region and Greenpeace is calling for an immediate halt to fishing in areas being considered for sanctuary status.

But others opted to lie, and they showed increased activity in their frontal parietal (顱腔壁的) control network, which is involved in difficult or complex thinking.

But thinking about or remembering descriptions in terms of their social meaning activated the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex—part of the brain's social network—even as traditional memory regions registered low levels of activity.

Joseph calls sharing his knowledge network through peer-to-peer learning a core piece of the company's culture.

Last summer, Massachusetts grass-fed beef advocate John Smith launched Big Picture Beef, a network of small grass-fed beef farms in New England and New York that is projected to bring to market 2,500 head of cattle from 125 producers this year.

More recently, as he reported in a 2012 review, lieberman has discovered that this region may be part of a distinct network involved in socially motivated learning and memory.

Perhaps you're bringing your unique knowledge and gaining access to someone else's professional network, or Maybe you're able to learn a new skill by working with someone.

Researchers from Brown University found that a network in the left hemisphere of the brain "remained more active" than the network in the right side of the brain.

since he began to informally announce the network at farming conferences and on social media, he's received a steady stream of inquiries from interested farmers.

Such findings, he says, suggest that "this network can be called on to process and store the kind of information taught in school—potentially giving students access to a range of untapped mental powers".

The " Love Food, Hate Waste " campaign entered into a collaboration last year with another such network — the Women's Institute.

Um, and we'll make the presentation and the questions available via the company's own computer network, right?

You then have more opportunities to expand your professional network than if you worked alone.