Research judged the success and challenges of two firms based on four key capabilities.

• Relating: Seeing the environment through others’ perspectives
• Sensemaking: Creating and updating maps of a complex environment to engage more effectively in it.
• Visioning: Aligning the leader's vision with the organisation's goal.
• Inventing: Creating new structures or processes.

The company that enacted distributed leadership fared better than the one with a command-and-control leadership model.

Successfully leading a company into the future is no longer relying on command-and-control leadership. Instead, the emphasis is on distributed leadership - giving people autonomy to innovate and working in flexible teams so that companies can respond to technology and external ri...