Breathing New Life into Leadership

Source: CPA Success

In his book Leadershift: Reinventing Leadership for the Age of Mass Collaboration, Emmanuel Gobillot suggests that leadership will become irrelevant, absent some major changes. Four trends lead him to this conclusion:

• Multicultural and multigenerational demographic changes.
• Expertise and value creation are taking place outside organizational boundaries.
• Readily available social networks are competing for workers' attention.
• A trend away from positional power and toward democracy.

According to Gobillot, leadership in this new environment — what he refers to as “network leadership” — is about facilitating conversations, developing the organization's “narrative,” simplifying things, connecting to peoples' emotions, and focusing less on formal hierarchy and more on the tasks that need to be done.

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From CPA Success, the blog of the Maryland Association of CPAs, www.cpasuccess.com, July 21, 2010, “Is leadership dead?”