Leadership in participatory culture

Ted Ernst pionts to an article on leadership in participatory culture.   The artile contains the following list of capacities:

• trust others and trust in the collective ability of a group
• draw attention to commonality between participants (rather than dividing them with differences)
• demonstrate active conscious commitment to vision, values, and goals as example to others
• act responsively to feedback and help grow feedback loops among participants
• show their humanity, making them credible and proving their integrity regularly
• listen actively and deeply with distributed credit so decisions seem to come from collective
• instill a sense of togetherness, a sense of “we can do this if we each do our part”
• defend the collective to outsiders and represents their needs
• hold each participant to their greatness
• open to seeing how the pieces fit together–open to emergence
• willing and ready for new opportunities
• able to respond with compassion in times of stress and difficulty

This is a very interesting and relevant list, especially in light of the exploring some of us are doing around the Art of Governance.