ABSTRACT
We tend to think of organisations as having a leader – or a leadership team – at the top, with everyone else following on behind. Increasingly, though, we’re hearing of the concept of ‘distributed leadership’. It’s not difficult to see that that might mean delegation to a middle level, but true distributed leadership goes further than that, and envisages an organisation in which everyone takes leadership of their own area of work. In the article which inspired this column, management writer Brent Filson explains what this means to him.
