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Collective Leadership

Overview

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

Instructions: To add links, please find the right content type category below and enter the name of the resource, the ULR and a brief description. To upload files please select the "add attachment" option under "more tools". For more information check out the Leadership for a New Era user guide!

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). Article is attached at bottom of page.
Shared Leadership: A Postheroic Perspective on Leadership as a Collective Construction (International Journal of Leadership Studies, 2007)
Joseph A. Raelin, Creating Leaderful Organizations
"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. (Article available as attachment at the bottom of page)

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 (see chart attached below)
- 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 (see attached framework below)
- 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. A follow up interview with Miho is forthcoming (drawing on questions participants will be asked to submit) and a synthesis of that interview will be posted here. The resources distributed at that meeting, along with the PowerPoint presented, can be found below in "Attachments."

KLCC and CEL meeting (Do we have notes from this meeting?

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Questions for DataCenter on Shared Leadership Model

Nov 9 2009, 2:32 PM EST by nataliallc

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On October 21st, Miho Kim and Celia Davis of the DataCenter led a session of the Bay Area LLC Circle on the model of Shared Leadership the center adopted. It was a great session, but not enough time for follow up questions. Therefore, we are providing this space for you to submit any questions about their model that you may have. I will be interviewing Celia the week of November 9th and will compile your questions as part of the interview. The interview will then be written up and posted for the entire community. Please submit any questions you may have here.

Note that the materials from the meeting can be found under the heading of "Collective Leadership" and are listed in attachments.

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	DataCenter-SharingLeadership2009.pdf (Adobe Portable Document Format - 200k) posted by bcelnik Oct 30 2009, 12:41 PM EDT Prepared by the DataCenter, a powerpoint on their Shared Leadership model (presented at the Bay Area LLC Circle, October 2009)
	DataCenter_ZapatistaPrinciples.pdf (Adobe Portable Document Format - 23k) posted by bcelnik Oct 30 2009, 12:39 PM EDT Prepared by the DataCenter, some Zapatista principles and practices.
	DataCenter_SharedLdrshipExcerpt.pdf (Adobe Portable Document Format - 356k) posted by bcelnik Oct 30 2009, 12:37 PM EDT DataCenter's Shared Leadership Model - an abridged descriptive piece.
	DataCenter_LearningOpportunity.pdf (Adobe Portable Document Format - 279k) posted by bcelnik Oct 30 2009, 12:30 PM EDT Prepared by the DataCenter, tool to help ensure a balanced human rights framework for "support and accountability" in a Shared Leadership context.
	DataCenter_Leaders.pdf (Adobe Portable Document Format - 42k) posted by bcelnik Oct 30 2009, 12:21 PM EDT Prepared by the DataCenter, a tool that can be used to look at the different leadership styles of the group.