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  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/share-leadership-around-the-work-not-titles",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9117",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Share leadership around the work, not titles",
  "summary": "Leadership can be a process distributed around expertise and need.",
  "kind": "principle",
  "body": "Make it normal for members to convene analysis, coordinate a response or lead a review inside their domain, while keeping formal accountabilities visible.",
  "limits": [
    "Team-learning practices consume time. Use them where there is a real performance or coordination question, and do not substitute process rituals for domain expertise."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-lead-without-authority-stakeholder-systems"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-AA8B9C9C05AB892C"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "A meta-analysis of 42 independent samples found a positive relationship between shared leadership and team effectiveness, with stronger relations in more complex work.",
      "source_id": "RS-AA8B9C9C05AB892C",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "Shared leadership complements rather than automatically replaces formal accountability and may work differently across team designs.",
      "locator": "Abstract"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "When a team has strong specialists but waits for the formal lead to initiate every problem-solving action."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Team-learning practices consume time. Use them where there is a real performance or coordination question, and do not substitute process rituals for domain expertise."
  ],
  "example": "The integration expert convenes a recovery huddle without waiting for the program lead, then returns the cross-workstream decision to the named owner.",
  "check": "Leadership behavior is distributed where useful without creating multiple invisible decision owners.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-AA8B9C9C05AB892C",
      "title": "A Meta-Analysis of Shared Leadership and Team Effectiveness",
      "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24188392/"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9117",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9118",
      "type": "useful_with",
      "url": "/knowledge/review-whether-team-learning-changed-the-next-cycle"
    }
  ],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-47952011564F7728",
      "title": "Lead without formal authority: stakeholder decisions, delegation, voice, and team learning",
      "url": "/collections/lead-without-formal-authority-stakeholder-decisions-delegation-voice-and-team-learning"
    }
  ]
}