Format:
1 Online-Ressource (24 p)
Content:
Leadership resources are constantly adapting to the challenge of the dynamic and complex systems in which they must function. To understand the changing leadership types and to better guide the development of new leadership resources, we propose a two-dimensional leadership landscape that provides a perspective into past leadership resources and identifies new frontiers of leadership. In the landscape, one dimension is where leadership occurs - ranging from a single individual to the entire collective - and the other is how leadership arises - ranging from predictable - being based on the structure of the system, to unpredictable - being opportunistic and/or emergent. We call this the Where-How of Leadership Emergence (WHOLE) Landscape. While continuous metrics for placement of a leadership resource on the WHOLE landscape are suggested, for simplicity this landscape is divided into four quadrants; two of the quadrants are identified with traditional centralized leadership resources: 1) power-based, hierarchical and/or predictable leadership resources and 2) the opportunistic, unpredictable, and/or emergent hero or leader. This paper argues that the other two quadrants, those identified with distributed leadership, are the frontiers of leadership. The structured and distributed quadrant encompasses both familiar collective leadership systems (e.g., direct democracies) and developing systems based on information technology (e.g., prediction markets). The emergent and distributed quadrant, referred to as emergent collective leadership (ECL), is identified as the newest frontier of leadership resources, particularly for discovery of innovation in the most challenging dynamic and complex environments. As this paper introduces ECL, we address a variety of issues with ECL: its validity as a leadership resource, organizational conditions for its occurrence, individual and collective requirements for a functioning ECL process, and the embodiment of ECL solutions in organizational structures
Note:
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments December 1, 2009 erstellt
Language:
English
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.1516618
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