The Institute is a "virtual organization" that includes a core staff and a network of freelance professionals. The network is a group of talented people whose shared values and common purposes are harnessed around a project and held together by faxes, modems, express mail and airplane tickets.
The core staff provides direction, strategy and project management assistance; computer, Internet and communications services; conference management, graphic design and other disciplines to support a flexible network of freelance professionals who are working on Institute projects at any point in time. Freelance professionals include Lone Eagles, free agents, consultants and other solo performers. The network also includes institutional resources -- such as university research centers, think tanks, trade associations and consulting firms.
This flexible approach to organization and staffing permits the Institute's leadership core to tap the best talent available and yet turn on a dime as issues change and the need for new kinds of talent arises.