Think Week ’18: Shared Leadership Models

Photo by Oliver Fluck. (Image unfortunately does not represent the setting of my actual think week, which is more along the lines of small apartment in New York City.)

By: Tim Cynova // Published: March 30, 2018

I’m going off-the-grid for a sorta annual Think Week. On the docket for this year: process and distill learning from material related to non-hierarchical, shared leadership teams, the role of the CEO, and — if I have time (fingers crossed) — global virtual teams.

Many years ago, I became fascinated with the Think Week concept after hearing about how Bill Gates went into the woods for a week each year with a giant stack of reading material. I’ve been fortunate during my nine years at Fractured Atlas to be at a place — with stellar and encouraging coworkers — that supports similar kinds of exploration and knowledge acquisition adventures.

I’m in the process of writing a piece about Fractured Atlas’s journey with non-hierarchical, shared leadership models that we originally announced in this post. Meanwhile, I thought that I would share some of the content on the docket for next week. Stay tuned and see you on the other side.

• The Secret Life of C.E.O.s [podcast]

• Self-Managing Organizations: Exploring the Limits of Less-Hierarchical Organizing

• Nobody’s Looking at You: Eileen Fisher and the art of understatement

• The shadow of history: Situated dynamics of trust in dual executive leadership

• Impact of dual executive leadership dynamics in creative organizations

• The exploration of dual leadership in cultural enterprises

• Wikipedia: Shared Leadership

• How Shared Leadership Changes Our Relationships at Work

• Shared Leadership in Teams: An Investigation of Antecedent Conditions and Performance

• The importance of vertical and shared leadership within new venture top management teams: Implications for the performance of startups

• The shared leadership of teams: A meta-analysis of proximal, distal, and moderating relationships

• Shared Leadership in Practice: When Does it Work Best?

• Exploring antecedents and outcomes of shared leadership in a creative context: A mixed-methods approach

• Reinventing Organizations [book]

• Changing on the Job: Developing Leaders for a Complex World [book]

• The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations [book]

• WorkLife with Adam Grant [podcast]

• The virtues of hierarchy, structure and temporary teams [podcast]

• Hierarchy is Good. Hierarchy is Essential. And Less Isn’t Always Better.

• Yale School of Management’s Global Virtual Teams [course]

• The dynamics of shared leadership: building trust and enhancing performance

• A Meta-Analysis of Different Forms of Shared Leadership–Team Performance Relations

• A Meta-Analysis of Shared Leadership and Team Effectiveness

• The shared leadership of teams: A meta-analysis of proximal, distal, and moderating relationships

• Out of Sight, Out of Sync : Understanding Conflict in Distributed Teams

• How Task and Person Conflict Shape the Role of Positive Interdependence in Management Teams

• Shared Leadership: Reframing the Hows and Whys of Leadership [book]

• Share, Don’t Take the Lead [book]

• Is the Most Effective Team Leadership Shared? The Impact of Shared Leadership, Age Diversity, and Coordination on Team Performance

• Shared leadership in enterprise resource planning and human resource management system implementation

• Beyond the Holacracy Hype: The Overwrought Claims — and Actual Promise — of the Next Generation of Self-Managed Teams

• Alternative Approaches for Studying Shared and Distributed Leadership

• Sociocracy or dynamic governance

• Morning Star Self-Management Institute

What other content on these topics should I be exploring?

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Tim Cynova is a leader, HR consultant, and educator dedicated to co-creating anti-racist and anti-oppressive workplaces through using human-centered organizational design. He is a certified Senior Professional in HR, trained mediator, principal at Work. Shouldn’t. Suck., on faculty at New York’s The New School and Canada’s Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and for the past twelve years served as COO and then Co-CEO of the largest association of artists, creatives, and makers in the U.S.