Author(s): Gantasala V Prabhakar, Swapna Bhargavi G, Sai Ankith Gantasala, Rasagna Kusuma, Revanth Dilli
Complexity leadership is a paradigm of leadership that presupposes that the leadership role emerges from the interactions between individuals. A person may act as a lead in one interaction but may serve better as a follower in another. The role that a person plays within a team depends on the composition of the team and the exchanges among them. This paradigm breaks away from traditional conceptions of leadership. In these traditional notions, the leader is chosen either by convention or by natural characteristics. The character of a leader is innate, and certain individuals possess such features that others do not. The notion of complexity leadership obliterates this line of thinking. Leaders may not anymore be the monopoly of persons or be a factor drawn from genetics. Rather, leadership is an emergent property that arises from a group of random individuals put together for a specific purpose. Leadership or the leader rises from the team, often in a quite random manner, to take it to new heights in a cooperative fashion. When the same set of individuals mix with another set, another outcome results. Thus, somewhat unpredictably, the leadership of a newly formed group of strangers surfaces up. One may, thus, consider complexity leadership as a ???game changer??? paradigm in the broad area of leadership psychology or organizational behavior. This idea is so potent to the fact that it could change the way organizations set themselves up.