Writer and new media consultant Clay Shirky talks about the newly emerging organizational advantages of group leadership, as opposed to the traditional forms of structural hierarchy from which organizations originally developed.
Itay Talgam at LeWeb '08: Conducting is somewhat different from being a manager. It has not exactly the same meaning as being chef or a leader. In orchestras the leader is the first violin player. But the conductor has another job. He has to make people connect. So it is about connectivity, about becoming a conductor to enable other people to work together.
David Weinberger at LeWeb '08: Leaders are not longer isolated heroic figures when we allow for more emergent and crowdsourced forms of leadership. Leadership is a property of network, and this has also a consequences for politics.