I'm still in shock. I never dreamed of even running, let alone being elected. When decision making, responsibility, and authority are shared equally by two or three people, the appropriate leadership style is partnership. The greatest benefit of partnership is that a variety of skills, knowledge, and ability can be combined. Burdens and stresses can be shared, and successes can be celebrated.
Many effective individuals find their performance greatly enhanced when they form partnerships.
Many great comic duos of the past illustrate the synergy that can occur in partnership. Burns and Allen, Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy, and Martin and Lewis are a few examples of how the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Shared leadership is leadership with greater potential. A group of people sharing the responsibility for a task or project model the team leadership style. Teams allow people with very specific gifts, talents, and abilities to perform work together that would be difficult or impossible individually.