What a leader should know about the network
Leadership has been taken into account in an individualistic perspective since many years. Qualities of leadership have been considered in a micro-oriented manner. Available underlying assumptions that put the leader in the spot light by leaving all the rest outside will not proceed further due to the interconnectedness nature of growing society. How an individual ( i.e. a leader) will be able to influence the mass or which individual will have a tendency to influence the mass are totally different perspectives in the identification of leaders.
In future a leader should be equipped with the information of “network perspective” of the organization, or society. The network perspective of an organization tells us who influence whom? Who supports whom? Who trust on whom? Friends in the set up? Who conflicts with whom? Performance and viability of individuals and groups, information flow pathways, bottlenecks of responsibilities and many more.
Identification and strengthening communication ties with influential individuals is important for a leader to develop two way ‘trafic’ (information). An individual could be important as acting like a bridge between communities and can be tagged as ‘key integrator’, and on the other hand an individual could be a crucial such that if we will pick out the group will be divided on multiple groups in terms of ‘trust’.
Consider the following cases: We have three different topologies of interactions within different groups, who is the most important individual in each group? Does it make any sense or not?
Comment on the above 3 Figs 1a, 1b, and 1c: which individual is most important in each group?
Is there any individual leader/influential person present in each group who really influence the others?
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