The project is neither dominated by the vision or process preferences of one person nor dependent on all persons agreeing on vision and process. Healthy leadership is about healthy self-differentiation . Differentiation is a term from the world of biology and the physical sciences. It is used here because it belongs here. This is not to simply borrow language from one sphere to talk about something in another.
Differentiation is a fundamental mechanism of evolutionary life.
It's about how cells join one with another to function collectively as organisms while retaining essential integrity. There is nothing inside cells to make them function on their own in a certain way. Differentiation is present in cell and organ functioning, in all parts of healthy bodies, and in a healthy body politic. Differentiation is a principle of life . Excessive togetherness blunts creativity.