International: Collective Leadership With Power Symmetry: Lessons From Aboriginal Prehistory


International: Collective Leadership With Power Symmetry: Lessons From Aboriginal Prehistory Karl-Erik Sveiby, 2011   This article draws upon Australian Aboriginal knowledge in traditional law stories and anthropological studies of contemporary African bands. It applies the DAC ontology (Drath et al., 2008) to analyse two collective leadership models developed by forager peoples: one egalitarian ‘upside-down hierarchy’ and one power-symmetric model. Their existence has several implications...

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