Network Leadership

Summary

DOI: 10.4324/9781003092582-6

So, if complexity is beyond the wit of a single individual and hierarchy/bureaucracy is procedurally unsuited to managing complex environments but collective leadership is unable to gain enough trust, legitimacy and authority to coalesce ideas and energy around sustainable coordinated action, what is to be done?

It is a problem that we sum up in the final iteration of our leadership framework, with a line dividing it into two contexts (Figure 1.6). The first to the right and above the line describes a context in which we are close to certainty and agreement. We have problems and many of them are complicated, but we have ways of dealing with them. In some cases we have confronted them before and have ready-made ...