The first definition of Social Leadership that i ever wrote was that ‘Formal Leadership is given to you, within a system, within a hierarchy, whilst Social Leadership is granted to you by a community’. The foundation of Social Leadership is hence Social Authority: so it is a type of power, but a negotiated and consensus based one, as opposed to a codified and structural one.
Use your sixty seconds today to consider this: are you a Social Leader? And if so, who gave you that authority?
Or, perhaps you would disagree with me. That’s fine too: my work is held in principles of #WorkingOutLoud, and is hence fragile and often wrong. Perhaps you can be a Social Leader through your intent alone? Perhaps you start the minute you intend to be one?
Or maybe a title does not matter: is the leader that you are more important than the leader you are called?
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