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Commons are self-organized, self-governed, autonomous networks and organizations that function outside the state and the private sector. They are emerging around the world as people recognize that the state and private sector have increasingly closed off access to basic resources and services. People want increased power to determine their political, economic, and social lives.
Reimagining Leadership on the Commons includes leadership approaches derived from a complex, adaptive, open, whole systems perspective and a more relational, distributed, and collaborative paradigm that recognizes that rather than being individualist self-maximizers: people prefer to work together to share benefits and found a society based on ethical behavior, equality, and justice.
This is essential reading for researchers of commons, leadership practitioners, and non-profits working towards a more ethical, equitable, and just world.
Devin P. Singh, PhD, is Associate Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College as well as faculty associate in Dartmouth's Consortium of Studies on Race, Migration, and Sexuality. He is also founder and president of Leadership Kinetics LLC which provides leadership coaching and strategic advising.
Randal Joy Thompson, PhD, is a scholar-practitioner with 40 years of professional experience in international development, serving in countries around the world. A Fellow with the institution of Social Innovation, Fielding Graduate University, her research focuses on the commons, on gender, education, evaluation, and organization development.
Kathleen A. Curran, PhD, is a scholar-practitioner with over 25 years of professional experience in Asia and practicing internationally. A Fellow with the Institute of Social Innovation, Fielding Graduate University, and principal of Intercultural Systems, she specializes in developing global leadership in mindset and capability for spanning cultural boundaries.
Foreword; Dr. Marco Janssen
Introduction Part I. Overview of Leading on the Commons; Randal Joy Thompson
Introduction Part II. Debt, Obligation, and Care on the Commons; Devin P. Singh
Part I. The Paradigm Shift
Chapter 1. Leading Regenerative Systems: Evolving the Whole Instead of a Part; Kathleen E. Allen
Chapter 2. Leading So All Can Thrive: Commons Leadership for Mutualistic Self-Organization; Elizabeth A. Castillo
Chapter 3. Redefining Leadership through the Commons: An Overview of Two Processes of Meaning-making and Collective Action in Barcelona; Antonio Jimenez-Luque
Chapter 4. Responsible, Relational and Intentional: A Re-Imagined Construct of Corporate-Commons Leadership; Kathleen A. Curran
Chapter 5. What Favelas Can Teach about Leadership: The Importance of Shared-Purpose and Place-Based Leadership; Renato Souza, Thomaz Wood, Jr., and Brad Jackson
Chapter 6. From Governance to Leadership: Ethical Foundations for Value-Infused Leadership of the Commons; Catharyn Baird, Allison Dake, Jeannine Niacaris, and Nancy Sayer
Chapter 7. Leading Proleptically on the Commons; Randal Joy Thompson
Part II. Leadership on the Commons Lifecycle
Chapter 8. Developing Leadership on the Commons: Animal Rescue; Robin Bisha
Chapter 9. Convening Leadership on the Commons: Initiating Stakeholder Networks to Solve Complex Global Issues; Patricia A. Clary
Chapter 10. Collaborating and Co-Creating Leadership in the Virtual and Not-So-Virtual Commons: Road Warriors, Communitas, and Culture; Gayla S. Napier and David Blake Willis
Chapter 11. Using Interorganizational Collaboration to Create Shared Leadership Through Collective Identity Development; Patricia Greer
Chapter 12. The Role of Leaders in Catalyzing Cooperative Behavior in the Governance of Nonprofit Sector Shared Resources: The Case of Early Childhood Education; Angela Titi Amayah, MD Haque, and Wendolly A. Escobar
Part III. Leading Specific Types of Commons
Chapter 13. The Peoples’ Voice Cafe: Leading Collectively and Horizontally for More Than 40 Years; Susan J. Erenrich
Chapter 14. Open Data, Distributed Leadership and Food Security: The Role of Women Smallholder Farmers; Éliane Ubalijoro, Victor N. Sunday, Foteini Zampati, Uchechit Shirley Anaduaka, and Suchith Anand
Chapter 15. Learning and Leading Together to Transform the World: Jesuit Higher Education and Ignatian Leadership Formation at the Margins; Dung Q. Tran and Michael R. Carey
Chapter 16. Traditional Leadership on the Commons: Main Challenges for Leaders of Community Organizations to Govern Rural Water in Ránquil, Chile; Camila Alejandra Vargas Estay, Noelia Carrasco Henríquez, Victor Manuel Vargas Rojas, and Luis Gatica Mora
Chapter 17. Leadership of the Commons in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Protecting Natural Resources and Reclaiming Public Space; Edin Ibrahimefendic
Chapter 18. Hopping the Hoops or Building a Communal Culture as the Most Significant Pillar of Leadership of the Commons; Katja Hleb, Miha Škerlavaj, and Domen Rozman
Chapter 19. Job Commons: The Overlooked Dimension of Commons Leadership and Global and Local Governance; Jan Hurst