Peer-to-Peer Leadership: Why the Network Is the Leader
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (591 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1609947479 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Updating Leadership for the Information AgeOur leadership models are stuck in an Industrial Age, top-down mentality. Organizations, she says, must become networks of ""equipotent"" nodes of power—peer leaders. In these organizations, leadership roles shift rapidly to fit the needs of any given situation. The job of the leader is now to set the overall goals and direction and optimize the health of that network, not tell it what to do. But in our complex, data-drenched, 24/7 world, there is simply too much information coming from too many different directions too quickly for any one leader or group to stay on top of it. Information flows freely so those who need it can find it easily and act on it immediately. Feedback becomes an organic part of the workflow, enabling rapid course corrections.Baker shows how companies like Gore and Herman Miller have achieved long-term success practicing these principles and provides a structure that any organization can adapt to build flexibility, resiliency, and accountability.. Hierarchy is breaking down everywhere—why should leadership be any different?Inspired by the peer-to-peer model of computing used in social networking and crowdsource technologies, Mila Baker shows a new way to lead
She provides examples of organizations successfully using her principles and we learn, “In a P2P network community everyone is involved in creating and working toward that same common purpose and vision, everyone is equal and all are able to act.” A thought-provoking approach to leadership and organizational design for our twenty-first-century, hyper-digitally-connected world. From Booklist Baker, an academic and an executive, presents her “bold new ways of thinking about leadership and organizational design—leadership through community.” She explains that “peer to peer (P2P) IT (information technology) architecture is a radical, architectural shift that has transformed the computing industry and ignited an interest in peer-to-peer p
Leadership Paradigm For Networked Organizations Opens New Doors Kathleen M. Molloy Peer to Peer Leadership: Why the Network is the Leader takes a fresh look at both leadership and the network organization, an organizational “structure” that has emerged over the last several years with the rise of global, social / relational, and technological connectivity. The perspective taken by author Mila Baker, is that leadership is both an organizational form (a kind of structure) as well as a set of values and behaviors that comprise a "new lead. "Leadership: The Great Leveling Revolution…It’s About Each of Us" according to EK. Dr. Baker has done an extraordinarily good job of taking a complex topic and distilling it into a compelling read. ‘Peer-to-Peer Leadership’ is about the revolution in communications and connectivity that we are living through at the moment. It’s about the seminal change that is occurring around how we network, communicate, connect, and yes lead, in the virtual space of our lives…work, academic, and lifestyle. Mila has captured the impact of. Powerful theorygood read Edward G. Rogoff This book is both interesting and compelling. It makes powerful points about how to organize truly modern organizations and it presents these points in a very readable way.