connective leadership

participate + facilitate + enable

zaana howard

world 2.0:
the world is
shifting

old model:
the manager
a person who controls
and manipulates
resources

old model:
the leader
a person who rules or guides or
inspires others

new model:
connective
leadership

managing
+ leading
+ following

Connective leaders
participate +
facilitate + enable

you dont
grow a plant
by telling it
to grow

connective leaders:
think and act
holistically

connective leaders:
build relationships

connective leaders:
influence and trust

most of all:
connective leaders
create space

questions

three Cs for
connective leaders:
conversation
collaboration
community

conversation

creating the
informal builds
community &
relationships

social learning
conversation,
imitation, context,
modelling behaviour

collaboration

teaming across all vertical and

horizontal levels of an organization

community

community

a unified body of individuals

joint ownership or participation
social activity
shared purpose

community of practice
a group of people
informally bound together
by shared expertise +
passion for action

conversation + collaboration
+ community
creation

knowledge creation is social

tacit
individual

explicit
collective

summation
connective leaders
connect
activities + people + self
+ create space

questions

Zaana Howard
Email: zaanahoward@gmail.com
Web: zaanahoward.com
Twitter: @zaana

Image acknowledgements
All images sourced via Flickr Creative Commons

Slide 1: The web that is us by ecstaticist

Slide 2: Globe by _fLeMmA_
Slide 3: Best Buy Manager by msun523
Slide 4: Follow my leader by Leonard JohnSlide
Slide 5: rusty chain by shoothead
Slide 6: Over under by ecstaticist
Slide 7: Plant by Melanie deFazio
Slide 8: orange by joyrex
Slide 9: group stance by raysto
Slide 10: omg. by This Years Love
Slide 11: Stripes by swisscan
Slide 12: The Question by Corey Templeton
Slide 13: greedily expanding consumption by Domiriel
Slide 14: conversation by Rishi Menon
Slide 15: Conversation in the clouds by Swamibu
Slide 16: conversation by tanakawho
Slide 17: LightArt Kijkduin by Haags Uitburo
Slide 18: stop, collaborate and listen by lindseyy
Slide 19: prague skyline by pavelm
Slide 20: scatter the sun by ecstaticist
Slide 21: bounce by bayat
Slide 22: "Grand Design" spiral galaxy M81 by TopTechWriter.US
Slide 23: The New York Times on the New Art of Flickr by Thomas Hawk
Slide 24: Abstract lights 8109 by atomicShed