ABSTRACT
The conclusion reiterates our belief in the power of Network Leadership. Leadership is a critical success factor for groups, communities, organisations, societies and nation-states. Sometimes leaders wear a badge to help us identify them, but often not. Instead, and certainly in the absence of formal leadership, we turn to people with personal authority, those whom we describe as Network Leaders. Leaders who have a thorough understanding of their network and an ability to connect and energise it around a personal manifesto of what they believe and what they are trying to achieve. They position themselves to form connections between individuals and groups, enabling collaborations to evolve through trust and the identification of common aims. It is an approach that is always open to possibility and opportunity: reforming networks and ideas as projects unfold and reconfiguring to deliver, but always remaining true to a positive moral framework of core beliefs.
