Category: Leadership Systems and Strategies

Interdependent Leadership in Organizations: Evidence from Six Case Studies,  CCL Press,  2008

Cynthia D. McCauley, et al.

In September 2005, the Connected Leadership Project Team at the Center for Creative Leadership undertook to design and implement a case study research project to better understand “interdependent” leadership in organizations. Our assumption was that for organizations to deal effectively with increasing complexity in their environments, new approaches to leadership are needed—approaches that are themselves more complex than current approaches. This report outlines the theoretical frameworks and the research questions that guided our inquiry, then describes our methods and results. We conclude with our ideas about future directions based on what we learned in this first phase of a longer-term project.

Collaborative authorship by Cynthia D. McCauley, Charles J. Palus, Wilfred H. Drath, Richard L. Hughes, John B. McGuire, Patricia M. G. O’Connor, and Ellen Van Velsor.

(Available for free pdf download.)