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| billsay | Leadership from the margins | Discussion Forum | 0 | Oct 5 2011, 8:24 PM EDT by billsay | ||||
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Greetings!
I love this site and the discussion of collective leadership in particular! My thoughts today go towards the marginalized one who leads with the perspective that may be missing from the mainstream body of the collective and the collective that has enough “deep democracy” to be aware of the value of the marginal person or perspective. For me one of the implicit benefits of collective leadership is that it is a big step away from the pitfalls of “the leader” and system who often expresses rank within an organization without sufficient awareness as to how this may suppress other contributions and leadership, particularly if its counter to the main culture. Collectives need the marginal as growth and evolution often come from the edges and I think the ones that support and practice deep inclusion do the best with change, especially the unintended kind. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this! Warm wishes, Bill Say www.CoreCommunity.com
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| dianascearce | overall structure of the draft | Synthesis 6/10 | 1 | Aug 7 2011, 3:48 AM EDT by eekim | ||||
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Hi All -
I think the draft is really coming together. I do think it could benefit from some restructuring- in particular the front end. Here's a possible outline: #1 Intro - including sectionon "how network strategies and tools are increasing leadership impact" #2 The challenge and the opportuniey -- includes current section on challenges. Plus "why is there more interest in networks today" [And, then the current structure...] #3 Bringing a new leadership mindset to networks (call this out as the chapter head with subsections on core values and competencies0 #4 Supporing leadership in nets #5 Conclusion And, sidebars (including case studies) distributed throughout. What do you think? Best, Diana
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| DeborahMeehan | What is leadership and networks? | Leadership and Networks Draft Synthesis OLD | 1 | Apr 8 2011, 2:12 PM EDT by pyoungm | ||||
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One of the questions that came up in working on the Leadership and Networks report was whether or not strong network facilitation/weaving could be equated with strong leadership in a network. It reminded me of some of the discussion over the past decade(s) about the difference between organizational management and leadership. I am curious about your thoughts?
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| pyoungm | Networked Leadership Through Communities of Practice (CoP) | Leadership and Neworks Bay Area Circle January 31, 2011 | 0 | Mar 7 2011, 12:34 PM EST by pyoungm | ||||
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Check out this blog post http://bit.ly/hUKe3T about Social Learning vs Communities of practice.
Also take a look at CPSquare: http://cpsquare.org/ Communities of Practice can boost Networked Leadership, help focus on mission and increase participation and knowledge building. |
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| creinelt | Great edits | Leadership and Networks Draft Synthesis OLD | 0 | Feb 5 2011, 3:16 PM EST by creinelt | ||||
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Thanks so much for all the great edits and suggestions. Such a great example for me about the power of the collective.
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| creinelt | What's your leadership hypothesis or value propositon? | Leadership Development Hypotheses | 1 | Oct 11 2010, 12:36 PM EDT by KellyHannum | ||||
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Do you have a hypothesis or value proposition that guides your leadership practice? We believe that if we collect and organize our hypotheses we will have a valuable field level resource to organize collective learning about leadership practice. Can you contribute to this resource? Keep posted over the next several months for increased focus on emergent learning and evidence-based practice.
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| raqueldg | Cultivate Alignment b/w Your Leadership Practices and Values | Discussion Forum | 0 | Aug 4 2010, 10:35 AM EDT by raqueldg | ||||
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What practices do you engage in to cultivate alignment between your leadership actions and values?
http://22ndcenturyleadership.blogspot.com/2010/08/taking-my-own-medicine.html
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| creinelt | A new theory of leadership | Leadership and Networks (Overview and Resources) | 6 | Jul 29 2010, 1:54 AM EDT by olivia751 | ||||
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Do we need a new theory of leadership that goes beyond an understanding of leadership as an influence relationship between leaders and followers? How do we explain how leadership emerges in networks and communities? What resources are you finding helpful in broadening and integrating your understanding of leadership? I recently read an article by Bill Drath and his colleagues at the Center for Creative Leadership that I would highly recommend if you are interested in developing a new theory of leadership. Direction, Alignment, Commitment: Toward a More Integrated Ontology of Leadership recently appeared in Leadership Quarterly, Issue 19 (2008). An author's copy is attached below this discussion thread. Drath et al. provide a theory for how leadership emerges through relationships and interactions among peers, where there is no asymmetrical influence relationships. I found his discussion one of the most illuminating I have read, although the language he uses is dense and needs translating to be really helpful to those of us in the field of leadership development. If you do read the paper I'd love to hear your reflections, and also what other resources you have found helpful.
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| KendraHarris | Social Networks as platforms of action | Emerging Topics | 0 | Jul 26 2010, 10:01 AM EDT by KendraHarris | ||||
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Clay Shirky has a couple of very interesting books:
"Here Comes Everybody" and "Cognitive Surplus" in which he explores the emerging potential for collective action and cognitive collaboration through social network sites, shared media and the like. His work may be helpful for us as we think about using technology and informal networks and how that relates to networked and collective leadership. Here's a great introduction to what he's thinking. Enjoy! http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cognitive_surplus_will_change_the_world.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2010-06-29
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| creinelt | Fostering Collaborative Organizations and Networks for Social Change | Network Leadership | 4 | Jul 23 2010, 3:05 PM EDT by tutormentor | ||||
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Thanks Kendra for posting. (I framed a question for your post...feel free to edit it if you like). I so agree with you about the importance of understanding collaborative leadership using a system framework. A systems perspective focuses attention on the dynamics of what is happening within and outside organizations. An interesting issue to focus on is how collaborative activity is occurring within bureaucratic organizations? I think Patti's post speaks to this issue as well when she talks about informal and formal networks. I think there is a really interesting question you raise: How much bureaucratic involvement dampens the effectiveness of collaborative activity and where is the threshold of top-down control that still enables collaborative activity to thrive? So much network leadership is practiced within and across organizations whose leadership operates with a bureaucratic mindset, and it's often experienced as a real challenge. How do we keep pushing the threshold so that collaboration has more space to develop within and across organizations?
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| Gradymcg | refining the model of collective leadership | A New Leadership Mindset | 9 | Jul 19 2010, 8:26 AM EDT by amacgillivray | ||||
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I think Debra makes a good case for the limits of leader development, which is an expression of the increasingly anachronistic "heroic" model of leadership, and a equally good case for the power of leadership development, which taps into the wisdom and energy of the collective and focuses more directly on impact. It also makes a nice contribution by articulating the model underlying leader development, and mapping the elements of an alternative emphasis on leadership development. What remains to be done, from my point of view, is to create a new model that makes cause/result connections as explicit as the old model, while incorporating--or acknowledging--elements like those Debra points to. The Center for Creative Leadership offers one way of thinking about such a model by positing three outcomes of leadership--direction, alignment, and commitment. What I like about this model is that it leaves entirely open how one gets there and who is involved. It focuses only on results. But the model stops short of specifying community- or system-level impact, which Debra stresses. I'm thinking it would be worth exploring how to integrate these two approaches.
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| creinelt | Networks and sustainability | Network Leadership | 0 | Jun 15 2010, 9:14 AM EDT by creinelt | ||||
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Thanks Beth for posting this piece on "why working through networked approaches is a core strategy for sustainability". The example you give of the Boston Green and Healthy Building Network makes a strong case for what can be achieved by investing in and working through networks. I really liked your comment that "one organization cannot become sustainable alone; it requires that the larger “ecosystems” it works within to transform as well." As I think about the challenges facing nonprofit organizations, your example helps me recognize that it will take a transformation in the whole nonprofit eco-system to really make "social" work sustainable. We need to do much more from envisioning to creating standards to creating business models that pull the system in new directions.
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| KenOtter | Simple model for Collaborative Group Work | Collaboration | 5 | Jun 2 2010, 11:34 PM EDT by KenOtter | ||||
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This simple model was derived from a 13 month research project by Mat Schwarzman, Linda Sartor and Ken Otter while doctoral students at the California Institute of Integral Studies in 1995. Using Collaborative Inquiry methodology facilitated by Elizabeth Kasl, Mat, Linda and Ken, studied the experience of several groups engaged in collaborative work. This is the outline of their findings. I would love to here from others on how this reflects other people's experience in collaboration in groups.
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| RossWirth42 | Lessons from Complexity Science | Network Leadership | 0 | May 27 2010, 4:04 PM EDT by RossWirth42 | ||||
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The content above mentions complexity (used in lay terms), self-organization, emergence, and other terminology from Complexity Science. As a further expansion of the focus of network leadership, might we expand the investigation specifically into the area of organizational complexity (complexity science applied to social groups)? Such a study identifies possible leadership practices and often provides an understanding of what has become accepted as Best Practice. For example:
• Use Simple Rules for alignment – Avoid complicated, inflexible rule structures • Direction emerges from Shared Vision – Focus on progress, not size of the gap – Vision continues to evolve collectively (no end) • Enable people to acquire skills & interact – All change is local – Master planning is less effective • Encourage many small tests – Nurture success (or quickly discard ) – Diffusion of knowledge through networking Also see http://www.entarga.com/symposium/Dec09-Complexity.pdf |
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| RossWirth42 | Leadership in contrasting network styles | Network Leadership | 0 | May 27 2010, 3:46 PM EDT by RossWirth42 | ||||
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Obama's Organizing for America is often cited as an example of the new power from that arises when people network. However, other network styles are also arising. For an expanded study of network leadership, how about investigating the leadership structure of Organizing for America with that of the Tea Party movement? I see very different approaches in how strategic direction is set and how alignment is accomplished.
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| creinelt | Great series of Partner posts planned on network leadership | Network Leadership | 0 | May 25 2010, 1:05 PM EDT by creinelt | ||||
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We have a great series of partner posts planned on network leadership over the next couple of weeks.
** Patti Anklam (Net Work) is reflecting on how to prepare organizational leaders to work in a networked world. **Gibran Rivera (Interaction Institute for Social Change) is reflecting on what some of the organizational barriers are that get in the way of supporting network leadership, and how organizations can create the space for network leadership to emerge. **Diana Scearce (Monitor Institute) is reflecting on when and how to invest in network leadership and what forms this type of investment might take. **Bruce Hoppe (Connective Associates) is reflecting on what leadership looks like in a healthy network. **Beth Tener (New Directions Collaborative) is reflecting on why working through networked approaches is a core strategy for pursuing sustainability. I am personally excited by these posts since over the last six months I have been working with more and more leaders who are discovering the power of organizing their work through networks, and who are frustrated by their organizational culture because it does not value network engagement. Organizational leadership cultures that seek to control and regulate the flow of information, ideas, and resources in order to maintain competitive advantage and authority make it difficult to exercise network leadership. How do we catalyze the development of leadership with a network mindset within organizations so that they are a force for social and system transformation not a barrier to it? What additional perspectives or questions do you hope this series will take up? Do you have a perspective you would like to share? Join the Leadership and Networks partnership!
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| erickkaufman | Collective Leadership versus ______________ Leadership | Collective Leadership (Overview and Resources) | 0 | Apr 16 2010, 1:12 PM EDT by erickkaufman | ||||
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What is the difference between collective leadership and other forms of leadership, such as shared leadership and collaborative leadership? An alternative approach to the question is, what leadership theories support and reinforce collective leadership? As an example, in their book on "Collaborative Leadership," Chrislip and Larson (1994) suggest that collaborative leadership shares several key ideas with other leadership theories and models, including: Burns' (1978) transforming leadership, Greenleaf's (1977) servant leadership, Kotter's (1990) leadership as process, and Kouzes and Posner's (1987) leadership practices.
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| creinelt | What are your takeaway insights & questions from the Boston gathering? | Boston Learning Circle: Conversation About Leadership and Networks | 0 | Mar 26 2010, 4:23 PM EDT by creinelt | ||||
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What keeps resonating with you since the conversation? What deeper questions are you asking?
What keeps resonating with me is the fundamental need to make a much stronger case for investing in network approaches to leadership development and community-building so that we have the space to build trusted relationships. Those of us doing this work know how vitally important this is. I can't wait for the day when network leadership development is recognized as the future of leadership development.
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| creinelt | Questions We Are Asking About Leadership and Networks | Boston Learning Circle: Conversation About Leadership and Networks | 1 | Mar 12 2010, 4:32 PM EST by nataliallc | ||||
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I'm really excited about our upcoming gathering on Leadership and Networks at The Boston Foundation on March 26th. Those who are coming shared with us what they hope from participating. I've illuminated some of the underlying questions that emerged from reading those responses. I find these questions very provocative and look forward to digging deeper when we get together.
How is network leadership being developed and supported in communities of color? How do we organize our work to better support network participation? How do we learn to tap into networks? How do we connect to other leaders and have fun? How do we create dynamic teams? What examples do we have of team leadership? Can we share our stories? How do we learn together in ways that we can share with others (especially with youth and residents)? What are practical strategies for sustaining leadership networks? What are the deeper insights into the motives, incentives and barriers involved in sustaining leadership networks? You also shared with us that you are joining our gathering on the 26th to have real time to think about leadership and networks, to reflect on your own networks, to learn and gain perspective, to connect with others who are thinking about leadership and networks, and to have a chance to discuss a topic your passionate about. As organizers of this gathering, Gibran and I would love to hear your questions. What are you pondering about leadership and networks? What do you believe we need to pay attention to as we learn together about how to lead through networks? If you are interested in joining us in Boston, you can still register to come. http://www.leadershipforanewera.org/
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| nataliallc | What are some of the issues/topics you would like to discuss? | Seattle Learning Circle: A Conversation About Leadership and Race | 1 | Mar 12 2010, 12:29 PM EST by hwgrange | ||||
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To get the conversation started, please share with other participants what topics you are interested in and what you hope to get out of the meeting!
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