CHAPTER 10

We the Leader: Separate and Simultaneous

Leadership is plural . . .

—MIKE KRZYZEWSKImen’s basketball head coach, Duke University

I defined We the Leader as an operating system that includes an innovation process, a leadership process, and decision-making process. I called this part of the book “The Unifier: Me the Leader” because it brings together the unique and diverse leaders who are simultaneously followers of the common purpose as “The” Leader.

As we’ve discussed, the innovation process is founded upon the principle and practice of consilience and the leadership process, leading and following simultaneously, is called Simultaneity. (I will introduce the decision-making process, which grows out of and supports the practice of ...

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