Leadership fields are fields of shared responsibility and influence generated by a system to direct itself. Eldership increases the co-intelligence of a system's leadership field. Three Tracks of Leadership Patterned leadership is provided by established patterns of habit, organizational forms, culture, environment, etc. Patterned leadership provides stability and predictability.
Patterned leaders are people who reinforce the existing patterns in which and by which people live.
But most patterned leadership is provided by the patterns themselves. Agreement leadership is provided by the conscious agreements we create with each other, including shared visions, goals, decisions, understandings and contracts. We consent to these shaping our thoughts, feelings, behaviors and lives. Agreement leaders are people who help others to generate agreements and to live by them. Agreement leadership provides coherence.