6 Corporate Sector Perspective

DOI: 10.4324/9781003092582-10

The corporate perspective is less explicit in its use of term “Network Leadership”, but there are two pertinent examples. In the 5 Dynamics of Network Leadership,1 Doug Macnamara describes Network Leadership in terms of a strategic questioning perspective and refers to it as “systems-thinking leadership taken to the next level”. Leadership that goes beyond “traditional inward looking and autocratic management, which encourages leaders to engage, empower, facilitate, and bring connectedness to an otherwise unwieldy mass of disparate elements”. Taken together, the “5 Dynamics” provide a useful frame of reference for understanding the systems in which we operate (the subject of Part ...

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