Amazing paper by the Berkana Institute on how networks serve as incubators for CoPs, leaders, new ideas and ways of doing to emerge.
It makes me think about leadership training programs vs. networks/forums for growing leadership in the collective.
This aspect of emergence has profound implications for
social entrepreneurs. Instead of developing them individually as
leaders and skillful practitioners, we would do better to connect them to like-minded others and create the conditions for emergence. The skills and capacities needed by them will be found in the system that emerges, not in better training programs.