Chapter 6
The question now is, what is the role of the hub? Literature, politics, and popular culture have established the heroic leader as a stereotype. But a search for better models is under way. I propose to put a case here for the leader as host, at least when the leader is the hub of a network. I will suggest what the hub hosts, speculate on other emerging metaphors, and offer a thought experiment to explore these ideas.
The Stereotype
It starts with the language of leadership and its origins. From the military we get words like officer, strategy, target, territory, promotion, headquarters, staff, line, and division. How these commanding words have been absorbed into popular culture is nicely illustrated by a magazine ...
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