distributed leadership
dis-TRIB-yoo-ted LEE-dur-ship
dɪˈstrɪbjuːtɪd ˈliːdərʃɪpListen
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a model of leadership in which authority, influence, and decision-making are spread across multiple individuals throughout an organisation rather than concentrated in a single leader or executive team; distributed leadership recognises that leadership functions are most effectively performed by those with the most relevant expertise at any given moment, regardless of their formal position in the hierarchy; widely studied in educational leadership research, where it has been linked to improved school performance, distributed leadership is also central to agile organisation design, self-managing team models, and flat or holacratic organisational structures
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