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title: "Think Week ’18: Shared Leadership Models"
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# [Think Week ’18: Shared Leadership Models](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/think-week-18-shared-leadership-models-96764fd0d5e9)

 Written by [Tim Cynova](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/author/tim-cynova) | March 30, 2018

Photo by [Oliver Fluck](http://www.oliverfluck.com/2012/07/27/seclusion/). (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.)

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](https://www.earlytorise.com/an-idea-for-you-from-bill-gates-that-will-help-you-take-a-giant-step-forward/) 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](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/launching-exponential-creativity-ventures-and-restructuring-our-management-team-4042d0865e82). 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](http://freakonomics.com/ceos/) \[podcast\]
- [Self-Managing Organizations: Exploring the Limits of Less-Hierarchical Organizing](https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53193)
- [Nobody’s Looking at You: Eileen Fisher and the art of understatement](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/23/nobodys-looking-at-you)
- [The shadow of history: Situated dynamics of trust in dual executive leadership](http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1742715015579931)
- [Impact of dual executive leadership dynamics in creative organizations](http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0018726709335539)
- [The exploration of dual leadership in cultural enterprises](https://www.cairn.info/revue-gestion-2014-4-p-122.htm)
- [Wikipedia: Shared Leadership](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_leadership)
- [How Shared Leadership Changes Our Relationships at Work](https://hbr.org/2016/05/how-shared-leadership-changes-our-relationships-at-work)
- [Shared Leadership in Teams: An Investigation of Antecedent Conditions and Performance](https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/amj.2007.20159921?journalCode=amj)
- [The importance of vertical and shared leadership within new venture top management teams: Implications for the performance of startups](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1048984306000051)
- [The shared leadership of teams: A meta-analysis of proximal, distal, and moderating relationships](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1048984314000691)
- [Shared Leadership in Practice: When Does it Work Best?](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287977320_Shared_Leadership_in_Practice_When_Does_it_Work_Best)
- [Exploring antecedents and outcomes of shared leadership in a creative context: A mixed-methods approach](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1048984316000102)
- [Reinventing Organizations](http://www.reinventingorganizations.com/) \[book\]
- [Changing on the Job: Developing Leaders for a Complex World](https://www.amazon.com/Changing-Job-Developing-Leaders-Complex/dp/080477823X/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=) \[book\]
- [The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000TK5BQY/ref=oh_aui_d_detailpage_o05_aud_?ie=UTF8&psc=1) \[book\]
- [WorkLife with Adam Grant](https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/worklife-with-adam-grant/id1346314086?mt=2) \[podcast\]
- [The virtues of hierarchy, structure and temporary teams](https://engineering.stanford.edu/magazine/article/virtues-hierarchy-structure-and-temporary-teams) \[podcast\]
- [Hierarchy is Good. Hierarchy is Essential. And Less Isn’t Always Better.](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140112221140-15893932-hierarchy-is-good-hierarchy-is-essential-and-less-isn-t-always-better/)
- [Yale School of Management’s Global Virtual Teams](https://confluence.som.yale.edu/display/SYL/MGT+418+01-02) \[course\]
- [The dynamics of shared leadership: building trust and enhancing performance](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24731178)
- [A Meta-Analysis of Different Forms of Shared Leadership–Team Performance Relations](http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0149206314525205)
- [A Meta-Analysis of Shared Leadership and Team Effectiveness](https://asu.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/a-meta-analysis-of-shared-leadership-and-team-effectiveness)
- [The shared leadership of teams: A meta-analysis of proximal, distal, and moderating relationships](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1048984314000691)
- [Out of Sight, Out of Sync : Understanding Conflict in Distributed Teams](https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/orsc.14.6.615.24872)
- [How Task and Person Conflict Shape the Role of Positive Interdependence in Management Teams](http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/014920639902500201?journalCode=joma)
- [Shared Leadership: Reframing the Hows and Whys of Leadership](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AFFRI9Q/?coliid=IKDZWZLKZI8DB&colid=1ZS0T0RFZQ4IA&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it) \[book\]
- [Share, Don’t Take the Lead](https://www.amazon.com/Share-Dont-Take-Craig-Pearce-ebook/dp/B01FNA2VEY/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&coliid=ISKGTDYC4N31R&colid=1ZS0T0RFZQ4IA&qid=&sr=) \[book\]
- [Is the Most Effective Team Leadership Shared? The Impact of Shared Leadership, Age Diversity, and Coordination on Team Performance](https://www.csun.edu/sites/default/files/Hoch_Pearce_Welzel_2010.pdf)
- [Shared leadership in enterprise resource planning and human resource management system implementation](https://www.csun.edu/sites/default/files/Hoch_Dulebohn_HRMR_2013_0.pdf)
- [Beyond the Holacracy Hype: The Overwrought Claims — and Actual Promise — of the Next Generation of Self-Managed Teams](https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51297)
- [Alternative Approaches for Studying Shared and Distributed Leadership](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1468-2370.2011.00312.x)
- [Sociocracy or dynamic governance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocracy)
- [Morning Star Self-Management Institute](http://www.self-managementinstitute.org/)

### **What other content on these topics should I be exploring?**

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