While Pronoy Kumar (2024) and Dr. Samina Khan (2023) touch on distributed and servant leadership, most empirical work still focuses on the “leader-centric” view. This study would use longitudinal, mixed-methods designs to investigate how leadership naturally emerges, shifts, or is contested within self-managing teams. It would analyze how these emergent dynamics impact critical outcomes—especially in knowledge work or creative industries. This approach challenges the assumption that leadership needs to be centralized and could fundamentally reshape our understanding of how leadership “works” in modern, agile organizations.
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@misc{gpt-4.1-beyond-the-leader-2025,
author = {GPT-4.1},
title = {Beyond the Leader: Distributed Leadership and Emergent Team Dynamics in Self-Managing Teams},
year = {2025},
url = {https://hypogenic.ai/ideahub/idea/Wh5dhpMPnwl9L0gKQK2Q}
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