Connective Leadership Lipman-Blumen Jean Co-director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Leadership Peter F. Drucker Graduate Management Center in Claremont California

Business today is framed by two global tensions. People from far-flung reaches of the globe now find themselves in close contact, and collaboration is the order of the day. On the one hand, the age of the Internet has ushered in an unprecedented interdependence.

In this conflicting environment, a special approach to leadership is called for, one that tames these two forces and integrates them in a political but ethical way. On the other hand, we still live in an autonomous world of diverse nations and unique individuals, and the businesses and organizations that we have created to represent us are equally unique. The Connective Leadership model defines that approach, emphasizing various modes of working with and through other people instead of bowing to authoritarianism.

This includes creating short-term coalitions instead of long-term alliances and forming ennobling enterprises to