Great leadership is a network, not a hierarchy | Gitte Frederiksen

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🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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What if leadership at work wasn't for a select few, but rather shared among many? Management consultant Gitte Frederiksen gives us the recipe for "distributed leadership" -- dynamic, multidimensional networks of leaders that tap into everyone's knowledge and creativity -- and shows how it allows teams to do more and do it better.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:07.2	Today, a different framework for organizational leadership.
0:10.9	In her 2022 talk from Ted at BCG, leadership champion Gita Fredrickson gives us the
0:16.6	recipe for something called Distributed Leadership, where everyone is a leader.
0:21.8	She explains how tapping into everyone's knowledge and creativity allows teams to do more
0:27.1	and do it better.
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