Here are some articles from a few years ago that discuss how leadership can be defined in a way that does not mean being a type of person or a role in an organization. They were written before I thought of engaging leadership as a different way of showing leadership. These articles, therefore, talk only of two ways of showing leadership although they all share the basic idea that leadership cannot be defined as a role or type of person. My recent thinking is explained in the article Three Kinds of Leadership.
- Is Leadership a Relationship? Only if we see leaders as types of people who occupy roles. If we reframe this as management and redefine leadership as an act, an occasional influence process then there is no ongoing relationship.
- How to Show Leadership conceived as a one-off, occasional influence process, not an ongoing role.
- What is the role of Vision in Leadership? Is it even necessary and, if so, when?
- What does it mean to say that leadership is masculine or feminine?
- Is there a concept of Folk Leadership, akin to folk medicine of folk psychology?
- Should we stop talking about leaders and managers? See No Leaders, No Managers.
- The power of questions. See Engaging Questions and More Useful Questions.