Distributed Leadership Explained
Subject: Management Paper 1
I'm an alumni of Boston University grad school of Business, so I receive the Alumni
magazine Bostonian. To be honest, that does not mean I read it faithfully in the least. But this
issue was different. George Lebovitz, a professor in organizational behaviour at the varsity
wrote a piece of writing recently on his research into the appliance of alignment to realize
extraordinary leads to organizations.
He caught me with the primary sentence: "More than thirty years of research has
shown that aligned and integrated organizations outperform their nearest competitors in every
major financial measure."
He admitted not many organizations roll in the hay, but people who utilize it well also
realize a big competitive advantage!
By definition: alignment is that the optimal state during which strategy, people,
customers, and key processes add concert to propel growth and profits. When business
leaders implement this type of alignment, the entire organization enjoys greater customer
satisfaction, employee satisfaction, greater returns for investors. to try to this, they de-
emphasize hierarchy and distribute authority, information, knowledge, and customer data. As
a result, every employee top to bottom, understands the strategy and goals of the business.
Consequently, everyone knows how his/her work contributes thereto.
There are some ways to live alignment. But you'll only achieve alignment across the
board through distributed leadership. Implementing such strategies develops leadership in
each unit of your operation and at different levels of your organization. you really find
