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Strengthen Collective Leadership Capacity: James MacGregor Burns, often considered the father of the leadership development field and author of the seminal leadership book Leadership , was asked in a recent interview about the next frontier for the field of leadership. Without hesitation he answered, “We need to better understand leadership as a collective process.” There is a growing recognition that individual leaders need to be trained to work more effectively to unleash the collective leadership capacity of a group; and to better understand how diverse groups, especially those representing multiple organizations and stakeholders, identify shared purpose and vision and create capacity for coordinated action. Some programs have expressed concern that the selection and recognition of individuals may actually undermine the collective process and diminish the work of teams who share responsibility for achievements.
Resources
Books and Articles
- Alain Gauthier, "Developing Collective Leadership: Partnering in Multi-Stakeholder Contexts," included in the book Leadership is Global: Bridging Sectors and Communities (2006).
- Shared Leadership: A Postheroic Perspective on Leadership as a Collective Construction (International Journal of Leadership Studies, 2007)
- Joseph A. Raelin, Creating Leaderful Organizations
- Joseph A. Raelin, Don’t bother putting leadership into people
- Joe Raelin, Does Action Learning Promote Collaborative Leadership?
- "A Dance That Creates Equals: Unpacking Leadership Development," By Denise Altvater, Bethany Godsoe, LaDon James, Barbara Miller, Sonia Ospina, Tyletha Samuels, Cassandra Shaylor, Lateefah Simon, and Mark Valdez. New York: 2005.
- "Each One Teach One: Learning Leadership at TROSA," By Barbara Lau. New York: 2003.
- “A Constructionist Lens on Leadership,” By Sonia Ospina and Georgia L.J. Sorenson, chapter in The Quest for General Theory on Leadership, edited by George R. Goethals and Georgia L.J. Sorenson. 2006
- “Leadership (Re)Constructed: How Lens Matters,” By Sonia Ospina and Ellen Schall. Paper Presentation at APPAM Research Conference in Washington, DC, 2001.
- Ross A. Wirth, Ph.D., The DAC Framework of Leadership
Initiatives
- Kellogg Leadership for Community Change. Publications on collective leadership are available at this link.
Research Projects
- Illuminating the Blind Spot: Leadership in the Context of Emerging Worlds. W. Brian Arthur, Jonathan Day, Joseph Jaworski, Michael Jung, Ikujiro Nonaka, C. Otto Scharmer, Peter M. Senge held a series of conversations and conducted dialogue-interviews with thought leaders on knowledge and leadership in 1999-2000. This paper summarizes what they learned about individual and collective leadership.
Tools
- Center for Ethical Leadership Lead intermediary for the KLCC initiative, and a pioneer in cultivating collective leadership.
- Collective Leadership Framework Activities -- A toolkit of good resources...you can also add your own.
- Harvesting Wisdom from Convenings
- LLC Funders and Evaluation Circle Meeting on Collective Leadership in January 2007.
- A list of attributes of collective leadership
- A set of indicators for 8 different elements of collective leadership
- Promising approaches, tools, and resources for evaluating collective leadership
- Co-Leadership Assessment Framework developed by Barry Kibel, SEED-NY for organizations to use to assess their current collective leadership capacity
- Notes from the Evaluation Learning Circle Breakout Group
- Bay Area LLC Circle: The DataCenter on Shared Leadership. On October 21, 2009, Miho Kim and Celia Davis of the DataCenter shared their learning about the "shared leadership" model the Center adopted in 2006. It was a thought provoking session and raised many questions for the participants in the room. Check out a follow up interview with Miho and a synthesis of that interview.
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