I beg to differ, 21st century is less about what designated leaders do, whether it is about listening, analyzing, setting context or building context, but what all stakeholders do in service of the important work that needs to do be done, whether they are in formal leader roles or not.

I have been seeing for some time a radical re-visioning of what learning and work should be in your writings for some time, but do not see it applied to the theory and practice of leadership. I wish you would apply it there. Then I think you could better contribute to the transformation of our understanding and practice of organizing, learning and working. With out this shift in conceptualizing and languaging leadership, then I am afraid the extend of the change will not be as significant as it could be.

Again, people exercise leadership, and sometimes they do so in their roles of authority or expertise. But there is a lot more potential in unleashing the capacity of people for meaningful change in the systems to which they belong, if leadership is viewed as a property of the enterprise and a dynamic that all stakeholders exercise.

Thanks for listening.