7Leading the Institutional Inversion:Toward Eco-System Economies

The next social revolution has to be an institutional one. A revolution that helps us to bend the beam of institutional attention all the way back to source—that is, to a place where the institutional system can see and renew itself.

Shifting the Locus of Leadership

What do you do when you are part of a system whose vital components operate in separate silos? Answer: You connect them. You shift the locus of leadership from the center to the periphery—that is, from one place to many places. You connect these places in ways that facilitate sense-making in more distributed, direct, and dialogic ways.

We witness this process of shifting the locus of leadership from one place in the ...

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