Steve, I agree with your comments about action. You wrote that it is not
only important for a leader to set the climate but to also get people to
act. This can have various levels of difficulty depending on the community
that the leader leads. Ideally, in a learning organization the group will
feel that they own their work plans. Thus, the goup with the leader make
decisions collectively and the members of the group are already motivated
to act.
This let me think about models of shared leadership and cooperatives.
Cooperatives are not so common in the US but they are in the developing
world. There you have case of shared leadership. Leaders arise as needed.
Leadership is more based on the circumstances and the strengths of various
members of the community.
What can we learn about leadership from models of shared leadership? What
is the relationship of the community to the leader(s) in this case?
Maria Kardamaki Robertson
Third Sector of New England
To reply to Steve Swan's question:
"what do I do at Brandeis?"
I am working on my dissertation in Anthropology.
I study nonprofit organizations in the process of
re-examining their workforce with the purpose of
becoming some form of LO. (Please see my intro
to this list last month).
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