Is it about the Crowd?

I came across this article and found it a good read and challenge to the conventional conversation around leadership driving things.   The article raises the question is leadership about when to get behind the crowd?   There is also a good conversation around story telling and the role it plays in shaping our world.   I liked how the reflection talks about how leaders are the way we frame stories.  The central conversation of the article aplies the thinking to the http://occupywallst.org/ movement.   This is a movement that is hotly debated at present.   It recognises it has refused to name a leader and as such is challenging the traditional model. "By refusing to name a leader, Occupy Wall Street presents a challenge to this view. With no one figure to credit or blame, with no face to put on a sprawling inchoate movement, and with no hierarchy of power, we simply don't know how to process what "it" is, and therefore how to think about it. And because this absence of a familiar personality-centric narrative makes us uncomfortable, we are tempted to reject the whole thing as somehow not real"  Really interesting stuff to challenge thinking here

I found this a great stimulating Monday morning wake up check it out and let me know your thoughts.


http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/11/what_are_leaders_really_for.html