Week 2 - Art of Collaborative Leadership: Practices and Disciplines

The Art of Collaborative Leadership: Practices and Disciplines
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The Art of Collaborative Leadership: Practices and Disciplines
The need for collaborative leadership has been one of the most discussed things in most modern leadership forums. The five exemplary leadership practices of Kouzes & Posner (2007) and the five disciplines of Senge (2006) are some of the best known discussions on collaborative leadership. Each of these works presents differences and similarities on the five practices and/or disciplines.
In the area of values/actions congruence, Kouzes and Posner (2007) points out that the leaders values and actions are what become the organizational culture. Senge’s (2006) point of view is however slightly different as he points out that the vision that the leader has is determined by the existing reality. On shared vision, Kouzes and Posner (2007) point out that even though all the leaders have dreams of how the future ought to be, such visions remain only as dreams until they are shared. While Kouzes and ...