Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Dr. Marco Janssen Introduction -- Part I. Overview of leading on the commons / Randal Joy Thompson Introduction -- Part II. Debt, obligation, and care on the commons / Devin P. Singh -- Part I. The paradigm shift -- Chapter 1. Leading regenerative systems: Evolving the whole instead of a part / Kathleen E. Allen -- Chapter 2. Leading so all can thrive: Commons leadership for mutualistic self-organization / Elizabeth A. Castillo -- Chapter 3. Redefining leadership through the commons: An overview of two processes of meaning-making and collective action in barcelona / Antonio Jimenez-Luque -- Chapter 4. Responsible, relational and intentional: A re-imagined construct of corporate-commons leadership / Kathleen A. Curran -- Chapter 5. What favelas can teach about leadership: The importance of shared-purpose and place-based leadership / Renato Souza, Thomaz Wood, Jr., and Brad Jackson -- Chapter 6. From governance to leadership: Ethical foundations for value-infused leadership of the commons / Catharyn Baird, Allison Dake, Jeannine Niacaris, and Nancy Sayer -- Chapter 7. Leading proleptically on the commons / Randal Joy Thompson -- Part II. Leadership on the commons lifecycle -- Chapter 8. Developing leadership on the commons: Animal rescue / Robin Bisha -- Chapter 9. Convening leadership on the commons: Initiating stakeholder networks to solve complex global issues / Patricia A. Clary -- Chapter 10. Collaborating and co-creating leadership in the virtual and not-so-virtual commons: Road warriors, communitas, and culture / Gayla S. Napier and David Blake Willis -- Chapter 11. Using interorganizational collaboration to create shared leadership through collective identity development / Patricia Greer -- Chapter 12. The role of leaders in catalyzing cooperative behavior in the governance of nonprofit sector shared resources: The case of early childhood education / Angela Titi Amayah, MD Haque, and Wendolly A. Escobar -- Part III. Leading specific types of commons -- Chapter 13. The peoples' voice cafe: Leading collectively and horizontally for more than 40 years / Susan J. Erenrich -- Chapter 14. Open data, distributed leadership and food security: The role of women smallholder farmers / �Eliane Ubalijoro, Victor N. Sunday, Foteini Zampati, Uchechit Shirley Anaduaka, and Suchith Anand -- Chapter 15. Learning and leading together to transform the world: Jesuit higher education and ignatian leadership formation at the margins / Dung Q. Tran and Michael R. Carey -- Chapter 16. Traditional leadership on the commons: Main challenges for leaders of community organizations to govern rural water in r�anquil, chile / Camila Alejandra Vargas Estay, Noelia Carrasco Henr�iquez, Victor Manuel Vargas Rojas, and Luis Gatica Mora -- Chapter 17. Leadership of the commons in bosnia and herzegovina: Protecting natural resources and reclaiming public space / Edin Ibrahimefendic -- Chapter 18. Hopping the hoops or building a communal culture as the most significant pillar of leadership of the commons / Katja Hleb, Miha �Skerlavaj, and Domen Rozman -- Chapter 19. Job commons: The overlooked dimension of commons leadership and global and local governance / Jan Hurst.

Commons are self-organized, self-governed, autonomous networks and organizations that function outside the state and the private sector. They are emerging around the world as people recognize that the state and private sector have increasingly closed off access to basic resources and services. People want increased power to determine their political, economic, and social lives. Reimagining Leadership on the Commons includes leadership approaches derived from a complex, adaptive, open, whole systems perspective and a more relational, distributed, and collaborative paradigm that recognizes that rather than being individualist self-maximizers: people prefer to work together to share benefits and found a society based on ethical behavior, equality, and justice. This is essential reading for researchers of commons, leadership practitioners, and non-profits working towards a more ethical, equitable, and just world.