A leader these days needs to be a host - one who convenes diversity; who convenes all viewpoints in creative processes where our mutual intelligence can come forth.

Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.

In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.

Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.

We need to move from the leader as hero, to the leader as host.

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences