Civic leadership in 2011 requires thinking, behaving, and working differently and today's community leaders need a different set of skills.

1. Civic Leadership in 2011: It’s All About the Networks Leadership White County February 16, 20101 – Monticello, Indiana Scott Hutcheson, Assistant Program Leader Economic & Community Development Purdue Extension

2. Our Grandparent’s Generation It Worked: Wealth was built at a rate the world had never before experienced First Curve – Our Grandparents thought, lived, & worked within hierarchies.

3. The S Curve Caught Up with Our Grandparent’s Generation Source: Ed Morrison, Distributed under a Creative Commons 3.0 license.

4. The First and Second Curves Source: Ed Morrison, Distributed under a Creative Commons 3.0 license. Second Curve: Vitality occurs within networks First Curve: Vitality occurred within hierarchies

5. We Do Our Work Differently Marc Davis Worked for Disney for 43 years Cleve Nettles Works for Nobody (and Everybody)

6. Products Get Developed Differently

7. We Communicate with Our Friends & Family Differently

8. The World is Moving Away from Hierarchies

9. Our Grandchildren Will Live Completely in This 2 nd Curve Second Curve – They will think, live, and work within networks.

10. The job of our generation is to manage the transition between our grandparent’s generation and our grandchildren’s generation. Source: Ed Morrison, Distributed under a Creative Commons 3.0 license. Second Curve: Vitality driven by networked organizational models First Curve: Vitality driven by vertical organizational models

11. Business are adopting network business models. Those that can’t or won’t, have or soon will, go away. What about communities? Those that can’t or won’t, have or soon will, go away .

12. How Do Communities Do Their Work? Townships Counties Cities/Towns Feds State K-12 Higher Ed Workforce Social Service Chambers Economic Dev. Philanthropy

13. How Do We Manage the Transition in Our Communities? By Linking and Leveraging Source: Ed Morrison, Distributed under a Creative Commons 3.0 license.

15. Types of Community Issues From Heifetz, R. (1998). Leadership without Easy Answers . Belknap Press.

25. What’s the Value of ONE Cell Phone?

26. What’s the Value of TEN Cell Phones? What’s the “value” of the people in this room today when we each bring our own networks that can be linked and leveraged?

29. Scattered Fragments

32. Hub and Spokes

34. Multi-Hub

36. Core/Periphery Network

42. The Network Leader NEW NETWORK LEADER ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES Convener Maintains the civic spaces Connector Links people, networks and assets Civic Entrepreneur Sees new opportunities Guide Maps a complex process Strategist Reveals larger patterns Knowledge Keeper Distills face-to-face conversations into key points and patterns Web 2.0 Maven Applies Web 2.0 power tools

43. Civic Network Continuum TIME Acknowledging Exploring Cooperating Collaborating Innovating You have to walk before you run Adapted from Collaboration Continuum from ACT for Youth Turf Trust Sharing Resources Sharing Information Mutual Awareness Co-Execution Co- Creation