Moving from Individual to Relationship: A Postindustrial Paradigm of Leadership

In this article, Rost compares and contrasts two paradigms of leadership and reduces their central meaning to one word. The industrial paradigm of leadership has been centered on an individual--a leader. The postindustrial paradigm will be centered on a relationship of leaders and collaborators. As we enter the twenty-first century, leadership scholars and practitioners are moving from understanding leadership as an individual to viewing it as a relationship.