Why Innovation Is Moving From Hierarchies to Networks

For decades, we’ve organized leadership around a simple idea: one company, one CEO, one locus of innovation. The assumption behind that model was equally simple. The most important ideas would be born, tested and scaled within the walls of a single organization. Strategy lived at the top, execution followed and innovation, in theory, stayed contained.

That assumption is starting to break.

A growing number of senior leaders are no longer operating within a single company, but across many. They are serving as board members, advisors, investors and, increasingly, as active operators in multiple contexts at once. These portfolio careers are often framed as a shift in how executives work. But something deeper is happening. They are beginning to reshape how innovation itself moves.

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