Marion & Uhl-Bien (2001) suggest an alternative focus on leadership where leaders enable rather than control, where power derives from the leaders' ability "to allow" rather than to direct (Regine & Lewin, 2000), and where people in the organization remain engaged and connected (Knowles, 2001).
In Teachers are Like Gardeners, Sir Ken Robinson suggests that gardeners do not make plants grow. The plant grows itself, however great teachers create the conditions for plants to grow. This same concept applies to leadership. Great leaders create the conditions to enable leadership to emerge.
Leaders as enablers, use the following mechanisms: disrupting existing patterns, encouraging novelty and making sense of the unfolding events for others (D.A. Plowman et al., 2007)
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