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    The leadership disease...and its potential cures
    (Elsevier, 2014) Pearce, Craig Lewis; Manz, C. C.; Business Administration; PEARCE, Craig Lewis
    Leadership development and executive education have taken on increased prominence in recent years. The natural tendency is to approach the subject of leadership as a hierarchically-based process that is focused on higher-level individual leaders influencing lower-level followers. This tendency is consistent with myths surrounding charismatic and heroic visionary leaders who are often portrayed as single-handedly inspiring and directing their organizations to new heights. Unfortunately, these simplistic portrayals of leadership are promulgated by the media and desired by the consuming public. However, this kind of framing of leadership is dangerous: it lays the seeds of centralization of power, which can have innumerable detrimental outcomes. Accordingly, we explore two potent antidotes to this simplistic hierarchical formulation of leadership that have become an increasing focus of leadership research: self-leadership and shared leadership.
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    A model of sustainable distributed service delivery in organizations with compassion-based missions
    (Sage, 2014-11) Manz, C. C.; Skaggs, B. C.; Pearce, Craig Lewis; Wassenaar, C. L.; Business Administration; PEARCE, Craig Lewis
    This article examines the potential for offering sustainable compassion-based service. Organizations with compassion-based service missions face difficult challenges in addressing acute client needs with limited resources. We posit that distributed service delivery (i.e., clients serving themselves and one another) can result in more long-term compassion-based service when supported by shared and self-leadership. A model of sustainable distributed service delivery is presented and propositions are provided to help guide future research.