Leadership - From emotional Intelligence to emotion inducer

"I think the big transformation for business is, not that hierarchy is going to crumble, but rather many of the relative advantages of hierarchy are now reduced.
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The habitual 20th century norm is: institutions enjoy a relative monopoly on tight management of information and tight co-ordination of action and big distributed groups (like your customers), don't have that." - Clay Shirky

If you want a quick peek on how leadership would manifest in this Century, take a look at this Video (in full-screen mode).


Take a special look at the conductor, Ethan Sperry, who conducts the Collegiate Chorale.

He not only sets the tempo and shapes the sound of the ensemble, he does one more crucial thing.

Ethan infects the air around him, with a liberal dose of his enthusiasm.

The emotion required is dependent largely on the context in which collective action happens, but the principle remains.

In this age of Social Media, the leader is not the one who inducts a tribe for collective action, but one who inducts the relevant emotion (enthusiasm, anger or whatever the context needs) at the right frequency, to his Tribe.