Leadership - a job to be done alone or as part of a team?

Bruce Hoppe writes:

Structural Holes: The Source of Good Ideas

What does it take to lead a successful company?

Corporate executives today face a growing array of challenges fed by revolutions in technology and globalization. It’s enough to make an executive wonder if leading a successful company is more than a one person job.

Actually, in most cases it is.

As Tom Malone recently put it in The Future of Work, “As managers, we need to shift our thinking from command and control to coordinate and cultivate -- the best way to gain power is sometimes to give it away.”

Coordination, cultivation, and collaboration are increasingly the mode of work at every level.

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