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Entrepreneurial, enabling, and architecting leaders — everywhere in the system.
Deborah Ancona, the Seley Distinguished Professor at MIT Sloan and founder of the MIT Leadership Center, established the outward-facing 'X-team' model of team performance and, with colleagues, the distributed-leadership framework behind 'In Praise of the Incomplete Leader' and 'Nimble Leadership' — field studies of how innovative firms let order emerge without chaos.
Ancona's MIT research — from X-Teams to the 'incomplete leader' — culminates in nimble leadership: distributed leaders who invent (entrepreneurial), coach (enabling), and shape culture and structure (architecting), letting order emerge without chaos.
The era: Human-Centered & Paradoxical — Psychological safety, vulnerability, identity, and both/and thinking. Leadership as creating the conditions for learning — and holding competing truths at once.
Entrepreneurial, enabling, and architecting leaders — everywhere in the system.
Where this work feeds the Open Sky frameworks.
Fellow travelers on these threads:
Lead incomplete: name your gaps and build the complementary team.
Balance entrepreneurial, enabling, and architecting leadership across the system.