Many experts are coming out today and attacking the notion of leadership and arguing for more decentralized organizations facilitated by technology. Their points follow:
1. Stewardship is more appropriate than leadership.
2. Leadership is inhibits an organization
3. Command and control slows progress
4. Technology replaces management
You should note that management and leadership are not the same thing. Management is sort of a surf process of enforcing rules and policies. Leadership is visionary and creates opportunity.
I think the key to this is not that leadership is wrong but management is what is not right. If the leadership is on track the organization can accel. However, if the management is poor then the organization falters.
If technology is facilitated correctly then there is a reduced need for management. In fact, an organization could become entirely self-directed through technology with marginal management staffing.
Do you have ideas how this could occur? How can technology facilitate the need for little or no management? How can decentralized organization operation through technology?
