Leaderful Practice by Joe Raelin
Joe Raelin, from Northeastern, shared his thinking about the need for shifting our thinking away from leadership as what a single person does to leaderful practice. The roots of the word don’t help us, he reminds us: it comes from an anglo saxon word that means to step in front of. Years ago he was struck by how popular the notion of leaderless groups, which seemed odd. Because there was lots of leadership in these groups. So he became interested in the notion of leaderful groups. What he notes is an interesting shift from conventional to leaderful leadership. A shift...