People The second part of the model is people, and the first principle of this component is that people of networks are independent members. Each member of the network is independent, self-reliant, or autonomous. If you take one person out of the network, the network is not going to fall apart. It is going to stay very strong and grounded because each person has brought the power of him or herself to the situation. The second principle of the people-component of the model is that networks involve shared leadership.
Shared leadership means that everyone plays a leadership role at some point or another.
When anthropologists first started looking at networking, they thought that they would be able to find a leader in each network. Instead, they found that networks were many-leadered. Networks and virtual teams are leaderful, not leaderless. That means that everyone at some point in the process has a leadership role to play. At the beginning, it might be the designated leader.