Achieving Our Potential-The Highest Level of Pull

The Power of Pull, written by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison, all of the Deloitte Center for the Edge, is a seven-chapter book published by Basic Books/Perseus Books Group. The subtitle is: How Smart Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion. Roughly the first half of the book discusses the concept of pull: the ability to harness the power of networks, drawing out people and resources as needed to address opportunities, and participating actively in a flow of knowledge rather than simply possessing knowledge. Pull helps access people and resources when required, attract people and resources that are relevant and valuable, and achieve personal potential more effectively by pulling from within the qualities of performance that success demands. The second part of the book explores how pull can be put into practice at the individual, institutional, and societal levels. Chapter 4 discusses the third and final level of pull: achieve. Achieving allows large numbers of participants to come together, through "creation spaces," to test and refine the practices required to exploiting their potential more efficiently. The authors challenge the concept of the "experience curve," offering their own "collaboration curve" that forms across institutions, yielding more diverse participants; this curve , unlike the experience curve, does not focus on learning, but is designed to drive more rapid performance improvement with learning as a byproduct.

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