Facilitative Leadership in a Networked World

May 15th, 2008 at 12:04pm Rebecca Borden

Leaders throughout the world are grappling with the implications of moving from the post-industrial era to the information age…an age where design, innovation, and creativity are essential to our ability to lead effectively. This period of radically accelerated change is demanding each of us to make a profound internal shift in our behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs.  And – perhaps most daunting of all – to acquire the new skills, tools, and frameworks that we need to lead in a networked world. A facilitative leader is a “servant leader” – one who respects the value and diversity of each person and freely shares power and decision-making.  A facilitative leader in a networked world must step further into her/his leadership.  A facilitative leader in a networked world is strategic, receptive, flexible, collaborative, humble, persevering, and rooted in the value of unlimited love. Marianne Hughes, executive director of the Interaction Institute for Social Chage, is the Leadershp Innovator at Annual Convention from 4:00p.m. - 5:30p.m. on June 20th. She will explore these new dimensions of leadership that will enable us to bring our change efforts to scale and root them deeply in “the love that does justice.”  

Suggested Reading:

• The Starfish And the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations  by Ori Brafman, Rod A. Beckstrom
• Net Work: A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Networks at Work and in the World by Patti Anklam
• Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges by C. Otto Scharmer
• The Medici Effect by Frans Johansson

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