Comments on: Evangelizing Distributed Leadership

By: Sven Welters

Sven Welters — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:03:10 +0000

http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Br...

just stumbled across this lecture about “Distributed Leadership in the Obama Campaign” and it reminded me about having read something similar here. You need a iTunes account for watching it.

By: lilianhutan

lilianhutan — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:44:28 +0000

A leader is someone with vision, someone who takes all the ideas and brings them together into a brand new one. As long as he understands his position, as do the members of his team, then we don't have a problem. Trianz has this kind of leadership system implemented. The leader is someone who brings out the best of his team, like the director of a movie, who knows exactly what he wants from his actors, and so he leads them to that place, but there would be no movie without them, that's where the collaborative factor comes along.

By: Eralda Jesku

Eralda Jesku — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:33:05 +0000

Dear Arsim,

If a leader is able to give up control by sharing his power with his “subordinates” and therefore enpowering them to take up leadership within their specialised areas as they are the expert in their fields and the leaders are indeed general thinkers, then these people would turn into “Gung Hoos” what Ken Blenchard in his book with the same title and will be accountable for what they are actually doing. It will be their creation having the same vision in mind, which is a prerequisite for any leadership and management situation. The complexity naturally disappears as it is a “shared” one. Whenever something is divided, it is better and easily analysed, therefore simpler to be managed. The role of a leader turn in whenever an empowered person gets “out of track” from the shared vision. I have experienced the empowerement or “open processes” over loss of control, and I can say that it is the best leadership model ever.

By: amulaku

amulaku — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:40:48 +0000

The idea of an open and distributed leadership style is without any doubt a must for those leaders around the world who are dealing with difficult situations in their day-to-day work. The question is: How those leaders indeed can comprehend that — as you brilliantly are pointing out — their power in many regards will increase? In many cases, still we find leaders who will think they should opt to classical ways of leading in a constant changing world. But, again, I personally believe that the actions of any leader should ultimately be predetermined by the complexity of context within which one operates. The complexity, itself should prove to them that collaborative and distributed means and methods are a must to excel.

By: Philipp Mueller

Philipp Mueller — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:48:21 +0000

Ok – Sofia: I want a guest blog titled: “The Myth of the Queen Ant” – you have at least 48 h – else I will appropriate your idea! :)

By: Sofia Elizondo

Sofia Elizondo — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:31:46 +0000

Love the idea of thinking about leadership as open source. Many many clients and consultants I talk to are starting to feel comfortable with the idea of open source production ONLY IF there is control and direction from the leader/center/top â€“ which is an oxymoron. We tend fall into our comfort zone: the myth of the queen ant.

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