Leadership is about constructing learning communities where people work together to expand their capabilities to learn and grow. Interactive leaders achieve this end by collaborating to build networks, partnerships, and coalitions among diverse groups and competing priorities—and by letting go of traditional beliefs about hierarchical or top-down leadership.
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