4 Public Sector Perspective

DOI: 10.4324/9781003092582-8

In What Is Network Leadership?,1 Curtis Ogden, Senior Associate at the Institute for Social Change, discusses a collaborative/networked view of leadership in the context of education. Recognising that the heroic model has been found wanting, he begins with the following observation:

Especially in this “network age” there appears to be both a growing appreciation that leadership has always been about more than the singular and highly visible heroic individual, and that going forward, leadership must be upheld as much more of a shared and multi-dimensional endeavour.

He goes on to describe leadership as being about “holding the whole”. A need for groups, teams, organisations and communities ...

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