Abstract: This article proposes five common elements or leader dispositions impacting the establishment of a culture of collaboration, innovation and inquiry. The dispositions of values/actions congruence, shared vision, questioning the status quo, collaboration, and systems thinking are examined through the lens of Kouzes & Posner's Five Exemplary Practices (Kouzes & Posner, 2007) and Senge's Five Disciplines (Senge, 2006). The writer offers an advance organizer (see Table 1), comparing and juxtaposing the essences of Practices and Disciplines within the context of artful, collaborative leadership. Other leadership literature (Bolman & Deal, 2008; English, 2008; Rosen, 2007) supports and provides relevance to the focus of this essay. All five dispositions, when working together in concert, may transform and improve organizational effectiveness through collaborative leadership.
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Keywords: collaborative leadership, organizational effectiveness, educational leadership
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