Leadershift: Reinventing Leadership for the Age of Mass Collaboration

If you want to be a leader, you need people who will choose to follow you, to talk about you, to connect over your ideas. This thoughtful book dives deep into all of these essential ideas. - Seth Godin

In today's wikinomics world, yesterday's leadership traits can be a liability. Leadershift shows leaders how to prepare their collaborative minds. - Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics

In today's wikinomics world, yesterday's leadership traits can be a liability. Leadershift shows leaders how to prepare their collaborative minds. - Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics

If you want to be a leader, you need people who will choose to follow you, to talk about you, to connect over your ideas. This thoughtful book dives deep into all of these essential ideas. - Seth Godin

Gobillot, a leadership consultant, defines mass collaboration as the collective actions of large numbers of people accomplishing goals independent of organizations, using social media technology, wikis, and virtual worlds such as Second Life. He explains what this phenomenon means for leaders in the new communal landscape and exhorts leaders in private, public, and nonprofit organizations to adapt to this new paradigm by letting go of control. He reviews trends shaping mass collaboration: multiple generations are increasingly working alongside each other, expertise is now found outside the organization as well as inside, and organizations must fight for the attention of employees and customers. The rest of the book explains how leaders can fulfill their roles in the age of mass collaboration and how they must shift their priorities. Brief chapter summaries and an annotated list of recommended books are included. -- Book News Inc.