Participatory Management and Facilitative Leadership

There is a growing interest in participatory management and facilitative leadership, and for many more reasons than just productivity and accomplishments.
"...The bar is higher for participation, communication, ethical behaviour, stakeholder relationships, organisational culture, and social responsibility than ever before. The Internet and global media have produced a quantum leap in connectivity. The globalisation of everything from markets to community-based development has wired us all more closely together and we are far more aware and attuned to what is happening than we ever were. We're a knowledge-based society rather than a world based on production. Ideas are the currency of the day. Crises and large-scale collapses in finance, international relationships, or failed states are requiring us to come up with new ways of being together in this interdependent world..."
Bill Staples, 2013
"...the world used to cry out for participative management that linked values to a management style of the future. Now, however, the world needs facilitative leadership - the ability to lead social, organisational, corporate transformation in a way that engages everyone in it together..."
Bill Staples, 2013