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Leadership as a dynamic, distributed influence process within teams.
Craig L. Pearce (PhD, Maryland) and Jay A. Conger (b. 1952), the Claremont-based scholar of charisma and leadership development, edited the 2003 volume that consolidated shared leadership as a field: leadership as a dynamic, mutual influence process distributed across team members rather than concentrated in a role.
Pearce and Conger consolidated evidence that leadership can rotate and distribute across team members — a serial, mutual influence process rather than a role. Teams lead themselves.
The era: Distributed & Complex — Distributed, dispersed, interdependent, embedded in interaction; leadership as learning; global competencies; combine all theories.
Leadership as a dynamic, distributed influence process within teams.
Where this work feeds the Open Sky frameworks.
Fellow travelers on these threads:
Rotate leadership by expertise and phase, not position.
Make it explicit: who leads what, when — shared is not vague.