Ed Morrison, Advisor for the Purdue Center for Regional Development, says that many of the familiar approaches to management no longer apply, and goes on to provide 7 keys to guiding an open network. I have added my images and one other that support this excellent set of rules. Click on each image for a link to the supporting article.
Rule 1: Form a core team with distributed leadership roles
Rule 2: To accelerate, go slowly at first [Probe-Sense-Respond]
Rule 3: Find opportunities by linking and leveraging assets
Rule 4: Create coherence with visualizations and outcomes with success metrics
Rule 5: Adopt simple rules to design and implement strategy
Rule 6: Promote transparency, mutual accountability and success metrics