Gennova colleague Jan Twombly just wrote a piece about the Gennova constitution for the Rhythm of Business newsletter.

Jan and her RoB business partner Jeff Shuman are all about helping companies understand how to manage relationships to create value. The constitutional process for Gennova inspired me to create a value network about the formation of emergent networks that individuals — outside of large companies — join for learning as well as to develop their personal business networks. I’m leaning more toward networks whose primary mode is face-to-face, but that struggle with the maintenance of contact via technology between meetings.

The question that starts the process (what Hubert St. Onge calls “productive inquiry”) is: why do people join these networks?