This is an outstanding article, befitting to the emerging landscape of jobs and the way we live our lives. It is very much well tuned with the change of our own social structure; clans, slave masters, feudal lords, independent farmers, industrial task masters, and finally evolving into the arena of the need to harness the power of diverse value adding processes of human and machine intelligence.

Organisational structure, like the social structure, changes slowly, until the internal pressure continue to build-up to align and realign itself in line with the rapidly changing external need and demands. By creating and delivering values to the external stakeholders is the only way to survive. In today's Info-tech driven fleeting demands of the customers have a constant nature of changing face of demands. Never ever in the history of mankind have we seen such a situation when human demands were such diverse and fast changing. Hence, this diverse landscape of demands have opened up a range of niches which are short-lived. Can a hierarchical organisation be nimble enough and creative enough to fit into such flexible and fast changing niche? It's a big challenge indeed. So we see the fast decline of the British high-street retail empires, designed to command, to some extend, the customers needs and choices. For quite a long time, their major strategy was to increase customer footfall into the territories of their 'empires'; like taxpaying subjects of the old empires (which these retail lords follwed in their organisational design), their customers would bring them profits. Customers didn’t have any physical choice to go elsewhere. The landscape of any British town was occupied by few of these retail giants.

While a need, apparently so mundane and archaic as to clad our body with some pieces of clothes, is heaving so dynamic changing face and trends, what about the nature of other complex needs that emerged out of our living in this complex global village? How the non-flexible and innovation-killing organisations are going to adapt to recreating and recreating its purpose with non-creative leaders? In fact a leader is she who has some inspired willing followers, and whose performance depends on the some-total performances of her followers. But can a single person can be a leader without any apparent human followers organised around her? Well, I think it could be. In this world of micro-marketing, we need effective micro-leadership, a leader who is incharge of her arrays of creative value-adding faculties, a leader of a single person's different personas.

While human participation in any production and value creation processes were too much dependent on physical human labour and participations, need for human followers-participants around a leader was a common scene. But, in the current knowledge economy, this requirement has changed. Machines, electronic gadgets, internet, AI, robots and drones have replaced much of the need of human physical labour. Hence, I think, the definition of leader and leadership must evolve. Now, leadership should encompass the idea of leading a single person's creative and value-adding faculties to work effectively for the person herself without the need for any physical second human near her proximity. And as this doesn’t need any formal hierarchal organisation, there is no questions of gender biases and things like that. Because, the concept of traditional leadership evolved following the large human organisations leading many people, mainly to harness the physical human muscle force, we were conditioned to the need for 'muscular' leader true to its voice and body. But we are living in a time, where much of the need for human body-force is delegated to the machines and engines; but still we didn’t give-up the notion of the need for 'strong leader' in place of the need for 'creative leader'. This is because the image of a leader is still drawn on the canvas of human body-force, not on the canvas of human brain-power.

As the Nobel laureate Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore wrote, "যদি তোর ডাক শুনে কেউ না আসে, তবে একলা চলো রে... " meaning
" If they answer not to your call walk alone"..

And this lone walker is a leader in herself, with invisible followers. If time comes, the followers may be 'seen', or may not be seen in her life-time. But it is the intellectual power that stays on and enters into the heads of the invisible followers. So, she is a leader!