New forms of Leadership

New Forms of Leadership in decentralised organisations Lee Bryant, E20 Summit, Frankfurt, Nov 2009

it is a myth that leadership is less important in the devolved (E2.0) organisation

E2.0, network-centric approaches can assist & support both old & new forms of leadership

In biological systems, the brain and body are equals - it is not a one-way street

Obama’s election demonstrated a powerful combination: the ‘power of we’ enhanced by strong vision and leadership

Leadership does not disappear in flat organisations: “The Tyranny of Structurelessness” (1970)

Even wikipedia has leadership ... and leadership issues

E20 and business social networking opens up new opportunities for traditional leadership strengths

the social web show us how to build new structures that have both intimacy & scale, using trusted networks to reduce friction & co-ordination costs

Leading from the front: 1.5m followers

Being human in public creates trust

Intimacy at scale

IBM BlogCentral: 67k users, 16K blogs IBM Beehive: 53K members, 63K photos WikiCentral: 150k users, 1m views per day Media Library: 8m downloads (source: Adam Christensen, IBM January 22, 2009)

E2.0 requires new leadership skills and management competencies in addition to the old ones

Adhocracy: anyone can organise today

Affinity vs Structure

Trust vs Control

Management vs Co-ordination

Collective intelligence: sometimes leadership is shared within a group

We need network-centric management

“Blatant integrity is present when people and organisations are comfortable with being held up to scrutiny ... [&] welcome the opportunity to cushion and overcome objections because they’re more interested in creating a moment of truth with you than making an expedient sale.” (Anne McCrossan)

three ways E20 impacts on leadership in companies today

1: identify & nurture future leaders...

Graduate onboarding, leadership programmes, business social networking

Leaders can break out of silos and hierarchies to encourage talent

2: enable leaders to have presence & intimacy at scale

Social business tools enable leaders to communicate directly, in a human voice

Leaders want real-time, unmediated info about business performance

3: give everybody a chance to demonstrate community leadership

Leadership as supporting other people, synthesising, making links, making sense

showing vulnerability and being human: how much trust do you have in your network?

Social Business Design connections archetypes (lenses) content collaboration culture [social business design]

What is the role of connections network-centric leadership in this model? management Helping ﬁlter for content relevance focus on data collaboration creating a & signals for performance sharing culture culture improvement [social business design]

Thank you for listening Lee@headshift.com http://www.headshift.com

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