"Leadership takes collective approach" : News-Record.com : Greensboro, North C... - The Diigo Meta page

• 15 Apr 08
  

  Levy Rivers

  new model leadership engagement

  • It's here, at street level, where the city's next generation of community engagement and leadership is taking shape. "There is a new model," says Cecelia Thompson, executive director of the Guilford Green Foundation, which serves the lesbian, gay and transgender community, gesturing to a clutch of fellow 20- and 30-somethings. "This is the model sitting around the table."

    Just as the city's economy is undergoing transformation, so too is Greensboro's leadership and how things get done

  • The new model emerging is one of consensus, in which many people — community activists, young professionals, the newly wealthy — work in collaboration.

    John Alexander, who until recently ran the internationally renowned Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, calls this style "responsibility without authority."

    While consensus-building is far more difficult than simply making a command decision, it ultimately makes for a more prosperous community

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