{"id":33405,"date":"2019-10-11T12:23:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T16:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=33405"},"modified":"2020-10-05T13:05:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T17:05:36","slug":"competitive-landscape-requires-vertical-and-shared-leadership-to-thrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2019\/10\/competitive-landscape-requires-vertical-and-shared-leadership-to-thrive\/","title":{"rendered":"Competitive landscape requires vertical and shared leadership to thrive."},"content":{"rendered":"

Steering a business that\u2019s faced with increasing competition requires strong leadership as well as innovation and creativity. But the strategy for success can\u2019t depend on one leader as the sole hero. It requires BOTH top-down and team shared leadership.<\/p>\n

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New research from Nathan Hiller<\/a>, associate professor of global leadership and management<\/a> at FIU Business, finds innovation and success is best fostered by shared leadership, with each team member assuming responsibility for some leadership tasks.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a globally competitive and fast-changing landscape where organizations and teams have to be innovating constantly,\u201d Hiller, co-author of the research. \u201cThe best leaders recognize they need to foster their team to engage in this subtle but compelling form of team shared leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n

The research, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Personnel Psychology<\/em>, examined the successes and failures of 64 R&D teams across the automotive, medical, telecom, and electronics sectors. It found that success doesn\u2019t require different styles <\/em>of leadership, but rather different forms <\/em>of leadership. The objective is to think as a team \u2013 not \u201cwhat I need to do\u201d but \u201cwhat we need to do\u201d \u2013 and translate that into shared creativity.<\/p>\n

Hiller, who is also faculty director of the FIU Center for Leadership, found that innovative teams shared in leading the development new products or refining existing products or processes. Successfully shared leadership tasks also included mentoring of their teammates, planning and organizing how core tasks should be structured and who should do them, and problem-solving, including making necessary adjustments, on the fly.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHaving team members share in these tasks doesn\u2019t mean that a formal leader is irrelevant but rather that teams better innovate when team members get involved in some of the tasks of leading,\u201d Hiller added. \u201cThis then also allows for the formally appointed team lead to focus on other strategic tasks.\u201d<\/p>\n

The findings, he noted, are especially important for organizations that are struggling.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo get a leg up on innovation we need to think of how, collectively, leaders must enable their team,\u201d said Hiller.<\/p>\n

The paper was co-authored by Hiller with Wei He, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Po-Hao Adam Huang, University of Arkansas; Xu Huang, University of Canberra; Li\u2010Rong Long, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; and Shao\u2010Long Li, Wuhan University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steering a business that\u2019s faced with increasing competition requires strong leadership as well as innovation and creativity. But the strategy for success can\u2019t depend on one leader as the sole hero. It requires BOTH top-down and team shared leadership. New research from Nathan Hiller, associate professor of global leadership and management at FIU Business, finds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":32291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[375,4387,4389,1988],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33405"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33415,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33405\/revisions\/33415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}