#📓 #🎥 #🟠 # A Guide to Collaborative Leadership - Davis ![[calendar-plus.svg]] <small>Nov 05, 2022</small> | ![[calendar-clock.svg]] <small>Nov 06, 2022</small> 🏷️ [[Leadership MOC]] **Author:** Lorna Davis **Citation:** Davis, L. (2019). _A guide to collaborative leadership._ [Video]. TED. [https://www.ted.com/talks/lorna_davis_a_guide_to_collaborative_leadership?language=en](https://www.ted.com/talks/lorna_davis_a_guide_to_collaborative_leadership?language=en) --- # Abstract ~ 3 Sentence Summary In this TED talk, Davis explains how our idolization of heroes is keeping us from solving big problems. She argues that we need "[[radical interdependence]]" to make real change happen. ## Key Takeaways - Start with a big meaningful goal that you can't do alone - Declare your goal before you have a plan - Ask for help and invite others to co-create a plan with you # Notes & Important Ideas ### We don't need a heroes, we need radical interdependence > [! quote] Lorna Davis > ...in a world as complex and interconnected as the one we live in, the idea that one person has the answer is ludicrous. It's not only ineffective, it's dangerous, because it leads us to believe that it's been solved by that hero, and we have no role. ### What we can learn from B Corps leaders - [[B Corps]] are companies who believe in business as a force for good - These companies see themselves as part of a whole system. > [! quote] Lorna Davis > ...true collabration is possible, but it's subtle and it's complex. ### [[interdependent leaders|Interdependent leaders]] do things differently from traditional [[heroic leaders]] 1. [[Start with very important goal that is impossible to achieve by one person/organization alone]] 2. [[Willingness to declare goals before they have a plan]] - Want other people to help - Invitation for co-creation or call for help 3. Understanding that they need other people - Heroes see everyone as a competitor or a follower ### Interdependence is harder than being a hero - [[Interdependent leadership]] requires us to be open, transparent, and vulnerable ## Connections to Other Materials ### [Collaborative leadership as answer to crisis of leadership](app://obsidian.md/Collaborative%20leadership%20as%20answer%20to%20crisis%20of%20leadership) Davis' definition of collaborative leadership offers a solution to the global leadership crisis that Halla Tómasdóttir identified in her TED talk, *[[The Crisis of Leadership - Tómasdóttir & Freedman 2019|The Crisis of Leadership]]*. --- # Personal Reflection & Application # Other References - [About B Corp Certification](https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/certification)