by Mario Gastaldi on September 10, 2008
What is Disseminated Leadership and why is it important to reflect on it?
And what is the connection between Disseminated Leadership and employee engagement, organizational speed, and impressive results?
Disseminated Leadership is a combination of circumstances occurring in an Organization:
- people are encouraged to take initiative and make decisions
- mistakes are not punished;
- people are aware of the whole picture;
- people have access to meaningful information and know what is happening and what needs to be done;
- Nobody “tells people what to do”
As a result:
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by Mario Gastaldi on June 23, 2008
by Mario Gastaldi on June 3, 2008

Photo credit: Dave Gray
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
This is an extraordinarily useful reflection for those of you who want to motivate their employees!
Too often leaders linger over negative conversations, even succeeding in persuading their people they are not adequate for the challenge.
What’s the use in this? And you … what do you think?
Read a similar perspective in Slacker Manager: How to treat people: Management by quotation
by Mario Gastaldi on March 2, 2008