The Future of Leadership Devlopment: Groups, Networks, Partnerships

Here is a short but great article arguing that Collective Leadership methods are the "future of leadership development."

It is written by Claire Reinelt of Leadership Learning Community

Whether we seek to eliminate health disparities or prepare all children to enter school ready to learn, we do not have the leadership we need.
The heroic model of leadership blinds us to the fact that untapped
leadership potential exists everywhere. The dominant leadership model
assumes that training individuals will better prepare them to lead
strong organizations; and in turn strong organizations will produce
better community-level results, but this model falls well short.
Reaching the scale and scope of leadership needed to address complex
issues requires new approaches to leadership development. Our focus
should be on finding, cultivating, and connecting leadership everywhere
it exists; across all generations, races, communities, and
organizational levels. To activate this untapped leadership potential,
leadership thinking and practice need to shift in three fundamental
directions:
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