The current global crisis will accelerate the movement of societies, corporations, and economies away from “leadership” and towards “communityship,” to use a term first coined by Henry Mintzberg (1).
Ecosystems are an essential part of the move towards communityship. Each entity within an ecosystem can be – must be – is – a significant contributor to something greater than the sum of its parts. Also, members of an ecosystem have a common purpose.
Would you like to know how an ecosystem strategy can change your game? Drop me a line at lesley@lesleyantoun.com.
In the meantime, here are four blog posts I wrote in 2019 on the topic. The recording of the virtual workshop I held on ecosystem strategy at the 2021 Spark the Change Conference in Montreal will be available here shortly.
How Ecosystems affect strategy
Collaboration in complex ecosystems
(1) Mintzberg, Henry. Bedtime Stories for Managers. 2019, page 44.
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