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<strong>Network</strong> logic<br />

‘right’ people censured if they fail. <strong>Network</strong> leadership rejects that<br />

model <strong>of</strong> authority, and the blame games it promotes.<br />

But network leaders nonetheless carry responsibility, in particular<br />

to preserve the trust on which their networks depend. In an<br />

unpredictable world in which some failures are almost bound to<br />

happen, that is a tough challenge. Acknowledging the depth <strong>of</strong> our<br />

interdependence with others, and the limited capacity <strong>of</strong> our leaders<br />

to manage it, will be a frightening experience. It is much more<br />

convenient to think that leaders will be saviours – and that we have<br />

someone to blame when things do not go our way. But if it wakes us<br />

up to the potential within each <strong>of</strong> us to solve our own problems, then<br />

so much the better.<br />

Paul Skidmore is a senior researcher at Demos.<br />

Notes<br />

1 See for example G Mulgan, Connexity: responsibility, freedom, business and<br />

power in the new century (London: Vintage, 1998).<br />

2 M Castells, Rise <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Network</strong> Society (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996); A Giddens,<br />

The Third Way: the renewal <strong>of</strong> social democracy (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998).<br />

3 S Zub<strong>of</strong>f and J Maxmin, The Support Economy: why corporations are failing<br />

individuals and the next stage <strong>of</strong> capitalism (London: Allen Lane, 2003).<br />

4 C Leadbeater, T Bentley and J Wilsdon, The Adaptive State: strategies for<br />

personalising the public realm (London: Demos, 2003).<br />

5 R Heifetz, Leadership Without Easy Answers (Cambridge, MA: Belknapp Press,<br />

1994).<br />

6 M Leonard, <strong>Network</strong> Europe (London: Foreign Policy Centre, 1999).<br />

7 T Veenkamp, T Bentley and A Buenfino, People Flow: managing migration in a<br />

New European Commonwealth (London: Demos, 2003).<br />

8 Global Business <strong>Network</strong>, What Next? Exploring the new terrain for business<br />

(Cambridge, MA: Perseus, 2002).<br />

9 I Nonaka and H Takeuchi, The Knowledge Creating Company (Oxford: Oxford<br />

University Press, 1995).<br />

10 D Rushk<strong>of</strong>f, Open Source Democracy (London: Demos, 2003).<br />

11 D Chesterman with M Horne, Local Authority? (London: Demos, 2003).<br />

12 G Mulgan, Communication and Control: networks and the new economies <strong>of</strong><br />

communication (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991).<br />

13 T Smit, Eden (Bantam Books, 2001), cited in J Chapman, System Failure<br />

(London: Demos, 2002).<br />

14 F Capra, The Hidden Connections (London: HarperCollins, 2002).<br />

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