American Leadership 2.0: How the Open-Source Revolution Is Transforming Public Service

America Leadership 2.0 examines the dynamics of open-source leadership, whereby citizens use the Internet to network and achieve shared goals. As the Internet allows for more powerful models of bottom-up organizing, activists often rise to positions of leadership more quickly than with the old top-down model, wherein they had to sit in all the chairs before being given the chance to lead. As a result, today's most valuable player is often also rookie of the year. Drawing on the expertise of all-star practitioners from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, American Leadership 2.0 shows how open-source leadership is revolutionizing public service.