Purpose – To explore the requirements for learning distributed leadership. drawing on cultural historical activity theory (CHAT). Design/methodology/approach – The background to recent leadership research that distinguishes between leading as a quality of one person, the appointed leader,...

Purpose – The second paper in a two‐paper series, this article seeks to consider how the ideas of cultural historical activity theory were used in a learning programme for managers to examine and apply leadership as a collective phenomenon usually referred to as distributed leadership....

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to argue that human resource development (HRD) needs to embrace and include futures and foresight learning (FFL) as a new addition to its field of theorising and practice. The question to consider is: How can FFL become a new feature of HRD? A key part of the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature and process of leadership in a mid‐sized, family‐controlled bank in Singapore in order to understand how it grew and developed under family control. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on distributed leadership as a...