Deborah Ancona is the Seley Distinguished Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the founder of the MIT Leadership Center. She is a globally recognized authority on leadership and team dynamics, best known for her pioneering research into “distributed leadership” and “X-teams.” Her influential Harvard Business Review article, “In Praise of the Incomplete Leader,” challenged the traditional “heroic leader” myth, advocating for leadership as a collective process across organizational boundaries.
