The most successful organisations can generally be described as "communities with a cause". While there is still a popular emphasis on the idea of the lone, heroic leader figure, sustainable and thriving organisations require individual skills to be harnessed within a collective framework. In the complex world of children's services, this is essential to help us rapidly make sense of it all and adjust our organisations to stay successful. Various leadership roles play different parts - from leading the strategic and political connections of organisations and managing relationships with partners, to delivering frontline practice to children and families. The concept of dispersed leadership recognises the contribution of different leadership roles, and that we can all be both leaders and followers at the same time.
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