Agile Leadership for Turbulent Times

Chapter 5

Eco intelligence: the Integrator

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

African proverb

Leading in ecosystems

Although it has become fashionable to talk about organisations and even technological systems as ecosystems, few really understand what this means for leadership. The building blocks of eco leadership have become extremely topical as leaders search for new ways to be more collaborative, more agile and more human. Our dilemma in writing this chapter was the flood of interesting information and deciding what to include or not include. We present just a snapshot of the range of thinking about ...