Network Leadership

Summary

DOI: 10.4324/9781003092582-30

People who can lead beyond their authority are able to produce change beyond their inner network. It is leadership in the raw, primitive leadership, stripped of hierarchical badges of rank, title and position and depending instead upon who you are, what you know and what you can find out, not what your title says you are. It depends upon your qualities as an individual, your strategic insight to seek out and chase opportunities and, crucially, an ability to connect people and build relationships towards the achievement of shared goals.

There was perhaps a time, if you were in a position of authority, when you could simply announce what needed to be done and assume it would be carried out. But times have ...