The hope of transforming schools or school systems through the personality or actions of individual leaders is quickly fading. Strong leaders with exceptional vision do exist but unfortunately they do not come in sufficient numbers to meet the demands and challenges of today’s schools. An alternative conceptualization of leadership is one that is distributed and premised on the quality of shared activity and interaction. There is increasing research evidence which suggests a positive relationship between distributed leadership and organizational change, as many of the chapters in this book have shown. The challenge is to build on this empirical platform and extend the knowledge base even further.
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Harris, A. (2009). Coda. In: Harris, A. (eds) Distributed Leadership. Studies in Educational Leadership, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9737-9_13
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