One leader at the top, one best way to lead. This is how many of us were introduced to the concept of leadership. And this is the approach to leadership upon which many organizations and societies have been built. We have seen the unfortunate result of elevating ­– even worshiping in vain – particular individuals or ways of leading while excluding others. The dominant concepts of leaders and leadership are, well, dominant. They prefer hierarchy to networks, control to connect

If you are as old as me or older, you may remember when you could order books and records through a mail order club. This is how I first came across and read a fictional biography of Mary Wollstonecraft – renowned feminist and political philosopher (and mother of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein). This book exposed me to feminism in a way I had not thought about it before. It lit me up a bit, but not enough to label myself as a feminist because of the barriers I described