networks

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19:39 Jul 12, 2016

English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Management

English term or phrase: networks

Hello everyone,

Below is a quote from David Kenny in the book Act like a leader, Think like a leader.

A leader has to understand the world. You have to be far more external, more cosmopolitan, have a more global view than ever before, to define your company’s place in that, its purpose and value . . . I spend my time with media owners talking about how they think about digital, Facebook, . . . [and] what can we do to invent new pricing models. I spend time with tech companies that support new media. With clients, I am interested in things like: What did the G20 mean to [them]? How will all that debt change future generations? I also spend time with governments . . . I cycle back to clients, I report back on what I have heard, to help them understand that their networks will move in that direction too.

What does "networks" imply? As I understand, clients in this case are not ordinary people, they are representatives (or even high-ranking managers) of the companies with which David works. Could "networks" mean companies where they (clients) work?

Thank you.

Mikhail Korolev KudoZ activity Questions: 2412 (2 open) (10 closed without grading) Answers: 130
Local time: 20:01

Selected answer:see suggestion below

Explanation:
a loose association of individuals having a common interest, formed to provide mutual assistance, helpful information, or the like

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AllegroTrans
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:01

Grading comment

Many thanks to everyone.
Thank you, AllegroTrans.
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4 +5

people they have dealings with

philgoddard

4 +3

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AllegroTrans

networks

Charlesp

TV networks and similar

Daryo

Discussion entries: 3

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20 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

network

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Explanation:
a loose association of individuals having a common interest, formed to provide mutual assistance, helpful information, or the like

AllegroTrans
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:01
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 8

Grading comment

Many thanks to everyone.
Thank you, AllegroTrans.

2 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

people they have dealings with

Explanation:
It means everyone they have contact with in the course of business: colleagues, clients, suppliers, acquaintances. It's not necessarily an organised group as Allegro's answer implies.

philgoddard
United States
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12

3 hrs confidence:

TV networks and similar

Explanation:
1 " clients" are media owners

2 "clients" are in position to control these "networks"

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Note added at 19 hrs (2016-07-13 15:00:53 GMT)
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"A leader has to understand the world. You have to be far more external, more cosmopolitan, have a more global view than ever before, to define your company’s place in that, its purpose and value . . . "
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"I spend my time with media owners [presumably David Kenny's 'clients'] talking about how they think about digital, Facebook, . . . [and] what can we do to invent new pricing models. I spend time with tech companies that support new media" [also 'clients'? more likely related to 'clients'].
...
"With clients, I am interested in things like: What did the G20 mean to [them]? How will all that debt change future generations?" [=> the 'clients' must be media owners, they are concerned with the general public = their clients]
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"I also spend time with governments . . ." [ways more likely talking about 'media' themselves than about companies offering support to "media"] ... "I cycle back to clients, I report back on what I have heard, to help them understand that their networks will move in that direction too."
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"to help them understand that their networks will move in that direction too." => sounds to me that there is no point in that kind of 'help' if 'clients' (media owners) have no say in what's happening to these 'networks'

If David Kenny's 'clients' are media owners the kind of 'networks' they would have an influence over are 'TV networks' , i.e. the companies they work for.

Daryo
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:01
Native speaker of:

Serbian,

French
PRO pts in category: 4

5 days confidence:

networks

Explanation:
sort of self-explanatory

Charlesp
Sweden
Local time: 19:01
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 3

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