“…These include exceptional outcomes, enhanced decision-making, complex problem solving, creative innovation, team-member fit, team synergy, organizational vitality, healthy organizational culture, individual wellbeing, and sustained growth. Shared leadership has been associated with exceptional outcomes, such as team success (Shipper, Manz, Nobles, & Manz, 2014), improvements in performance (Carson et al, 2007;Daspit, Ramachandran, & D'Souza, 2014;D'Innocenzo, Mathieu, & Kukenberger, 2014;Sivasubramaniam et al, 2002), motivational and cognitive advantages (Solansky, 2008), leadership behavior and efficiency (Bergman, Rentsch, Small, Davenport, & Bergman, 2012), effectiveness (Daspit, Tillman, Boyd, & Mckee, 2013;Haward, Amir, Borrill, Dawson, Scully, West, & Sainsbury, 2003;Hiller, Day, & Vance, 2006;Wang et al, 2014), proactivity and productivity (Erkutlu, 2012;Olivia & Shao, 1996), quality and service (Olivia & Shao, 1996;Manz, Skaggs, Pearce, & Wassenaar, 2015;Perry, 2000), and exponential growth (Hesselbein & Goldsmith, 2009). These benefits are more frequently observed in knowledge and information related work (Fausing, Jeppesen, Jønsson, Lewandowski, & Bligh, 2013).…”