Leadership 3.0?

Up till now, I think we have had two broad forms of leadership.

Firstly, from the time we came off the Savanna until the Industrial Revolution starting, depending where you live, the mid 1700's, we had mainly Sovereign Leadership. Whether led by hereditary power, or military might, (or often both) leadership was assertive (to be generous) and non negotiable.  The leader decided, followers obeyed and failure resulted in a swift and often brutal change.

With a deep nod to the more inclusive forms of leadership, from the Greeks to the North American Indians who we must still learn from, modern day democracy emerged after the massive changes of the Industrial Revolution, driven in part by new forms of economic power, technology and wider, deeper, faster communication. S/he who could gather the most followers got to lead. Gathering followers involved making promises, and our politics became a form of promise economy.

We seem to approaching the end of that as the promises get less credible.

So…