Slides of a talk I gave at the E20 Summit, Frankfurt, Nov 2009. See http://bit.ly/3crV16 for the narrative.

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Even wikipedia has
leadership ... and
leadership issues

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

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

10. Leading from the
front: 1.5m followers

11. Being human in
public creates trust

12. Intimacy at scale

13. 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)

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

15. Adhocracy: anyone
can organise today

16. Affinity vs Structure

17. Trust vs Control

18. Management vs Co-ordination

19. Collective intelligence:
sometimes leadership is
shared within a group

20. We need network-centric management

21. “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)

22. three ways E20 impacts on
leadership in companies today

23. 1: identify & nurture future leaders...

24. Graduate onboarding,
leadership programmes,
business social networking

25. Leaders can break out
of silos and hierarchies
to encourage talent

26. 2: enable leaders to have
presence & intimacy at scale

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

28. Leaders want real-time,
unmediated info about
business performance

29. 3: give everybody a chance to
demonstrate community leadership

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

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

32. © 2009 Dac
What does this mean for
organisational design and the
‘business operating system’ ?

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

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

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

36. I am lee@headshift.com and live at
http://www.headshift.com
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