This is a great riff. Thank you for your continued work and sharing of such insights.

I am most fond of the "The real job of leaders today is to ‘hold the space’, and in order to hold it they need to first establish a space where connections are flourishing. Leading is connecting." There are nuances around the concept of "leader" that are important to tease apart. Many people think of leaders as "Drivers" or those who provide pull in a direction. Driver -leaders are important but not sufficient in a network. Networks demand "weaver leaders" that focus on pulling the people in the network together and "operations leaders" that focus on sustaining the space. The roles are fluid but important to draw the distinctions so the networks can be organized properly and in balance.

I am not really a fan of the "network of networks" language. It feels like a sloppy way to say distinct networks that have open boundaries, or distinct networks that share some of the same nodes or protocols. If a "network of networks" share the same protocols and boundaries then the set is a connected network and can be measured and built as one. If the networks don't share universal node rules, protocols or agree that resources flow across networks freely then you have nested and/or fragmented networks. Or hubs that intersect networks and play gatekeepers among them. The accuracy in analysis provides much more clarity about how to more deeply connect people or resources across network boundaries that are often ignored as "network of network" is used.

MK