@Cde Zakhele, Your questions suggests that your understanding of collective leadership is mechanical. The process does not start at leadership but on membership. Collective leadership is not someones creation. It is formed from a common cause using principles that will forever guide it. It has no personality as you suggest in question 4.
The role of leadership is to provide direction and protect principles of that organisation. The collective part means the unity and cohesion of the leadership and the pursuit of the common idea for which the organisation was formed. Thinkers and organisers has the responsibility to shape the theoretical sphere of the organisation that will include the philosophy, ideology and principles that will guide the operations of the organisation. Though, this cannot be the only issues but primarily strategies and tactics develop from a set of ideasand philosophies. I do not know where your membership subscription is but the organisations in which I subscribe tells of collective wisdom, tolerance of dissenting views, collective agreements (democratic centralism), respect for decisions taken at upper structures, steering membership in one direction (bettering the lives of people) and electing a leadership using the bottom-up approach at congress. All memntioned above, tells me that collective leadership is not something to be implemented but a result of a democratic process that developes from membership into branches up to national congress. Once leadertship is pronounced, all members are expected to respect and support such leadership. That cohesion of the relationship between membership and leadership create and atmosphere to all leaders to serve membership in good faith (as a collective). Before I give more details, let me pause there... On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:15 AM, zakhele sibiya <[email protected]>wrote: > > Comrades, i updated my facebook status this morning by asking my friends > the concept of “collective leadership”. > > I raised the questions in the following way: > > 1. What is the meaning of collective leadership? > > 2. What is its role in an organization? > > 3. What are the ramifications of not having collective leadership in an > organization? > > 4. Who carries the responsibility to make sure there is collective > leadership in the organization? > > 5. What is the importance and role of thinkers and organizers in an > organization? > > 6. Is it safe to suggest that if collective leadership can be > implemented in all structures and congress movement we can improve our pace > in our current revolution? > > I beg to remain here, for now. > > -- > *Zakhele Sibiya > Inkomati Catchment Management Agency > Private Bag X11214 > Nelspruit > 1200 > > Tel: (013) 753 9000 > Fax: (013) 753 2786 > Cell: (078) 262 8937* > *Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. > Robert Collier* > > -- > You are subscribed. This footer can help you. > Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to > this message. > You can visit the group WEB SITE at > http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery > options, pages, files and membership. > To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected]. > You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to > put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to > this address (repeat): [email protected] . > -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
