Reimagining Leadership on the Commons

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 JanssenIntroduction Part I. Overview of Leading on the Commons; Randal Joy ThompsonIntroduction Part II. Debt, Obligation, and Care on the Commons; Devin P. SinghPart I. The Paradigm ShiftChapter 1. Leading Regenerative Systems: Evolving the Whole Instead of a Part; Kathleen E. AllenChapter 2. Leading So All Can Thrive: Commons Leadership for Mutualistic Self-Organization; Elizabeth A. CastilloChapter 3. Redefining Leadership through the Commons: An Overview of Two Processes of Meaning-making and Collective Action in Barcelona; Antonio Jimenez-LuqueChapter 4. Responsible, Relational and Intentional: A Re-Imagined Construct of Corporate-Commons Leadership; Kathleen A. CurranChapter 5. What Favelas Can Teach about Leadership: The Importance of Shared-Purpose and Place-Based Leadership; Renato Souza, Thomaz Wood, Jr., and Brad JacksonChapter 6. From Governance to Leadership: Ethical Foundations for Value-Infused Leadership of the Commons; Catharyn Baird, Allison Dake, Jeannine Niacaris, and Nancy SayerChapter 7. Leading Proleptically on the Commons; Randal Joy ThompsonPart II. Leadership on the Commons LifecycleChapter 8. Developing Leadership on the Commons: Animal Rescue; Robin BishaChapter 9. Convening Leadership on the Commons: Initiating Stakeholder Networks to Solve Complex Global Issues; Patricia A. ClaryChapter 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 WillisChapter 11. Using Interorganizational Collaboration to Create Shared Leadership Through Collective Identity Development; Patricia GreerChapter 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. EscobarPart III. Leading Specific Types of CommonsChapter 13. The Peoples’ Voice Cafe: Leading Collectively and Horizontally for More Than 40 Years; Susan J. ErenrichChapter 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 AnandChapter 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. CareyChapter 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 MoraChapter 17. Leadership of the Commons in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Protecting Natural Resources and Reclaiming Public Space; Edin IbrahimefendicChapter 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 RozmanChapter 19. Job Commons: The Overlooked Dimension of Commons Leadership and Global and Local Governance; Jan Hurst