Carne Ross The Leaderless

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Leaderless Jeremy Johnson University of South Dakota Abstract This article shows reviews of several books including, “The End of Leadership,” by Barbara Kellerman, “The Leaderless Revolution: How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century,” by Carne Ross, and “Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution,” by Marjorie Kelly. It gives interesting examples and ideas of how leaderless organizations happen and work. It shows this information so it can explain unwise ideas like the Occupy Wall Street Movement, and how there could be one day potential for this type of organization. Leaderless Imagine that one day the President of the United States of America, had no place in government, or that…show more content…
Whether it is our current President of the United States of America or the former democratically elected leader of Fiji who was found guilty on corruption charges, are always replaceable. One of the many contributors to the article is Carne Ross. He is a writer from the UK who founded a diplomatic advisory group called, Independent Diplomat. Ross, the writer of, “The Leaderless Revolution,” advocates in the article, “participatory democracy,” in which everyone comes together in person to discuss problems and forge solutions through civilized debate. Sort of like town hall meetings or private unrepresented group meetings. Ross makes his case not just against leadership but against any form of representation, arguing that it hasn’t worked, and never will, because “democratically elected representatives have to work at so high a level of abstraction that they never really operate in anyone’s interests and can easily lose all sense of their humanity.” Basically, Ross sees companies working best where ownership and leadership are widely dispersed throughout…show more content…
Ovans admits that although her self-managed teams were experts at tactical matters, they still could not compare with teams that had dedicated managers. Another example is the Occupy movement; until leadership started to take place, the movement was quite a mess. Even documented in the article, What Is Occupy? Stephen Gandel, a writer in TIME magazine, explains how Zuccotti Park protesters got things done “with no titles, and no corner offices,” thanks to a network of working groups focusing on individual tasks. Unfortunately, that was not the case. A “spokes council” was created, then after that failed, a “high-level committee” was made up. Even though the end result of the protest was unsuccessful, some type of leadership needed to be and was
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