Leadership

The success of a team depends critically on leadership. Successful team leaders are:

· Transformational,

· Empowering,

· Inclusive,

· Able to negotiate conflicts,

· Providers of good feedback and encouragement

Still, there are different styles of successful leadership:

• An individual initiator who becomes polyvalent in his or her capacity to undertake research

• A two‐person team where a duo from different disciplines meet (sometimes by chance) and find areas of common interest

• A mentor who creates a forum for individuals to work together in a relatively modest program

Kessel, F.S., Rosenfield, P. L., & Anderson, N. B. (Eds.). Interdisciplinary research: Case studies from health and social science (2nd ed.) New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Sue L. T. McGregor and Gabrielle Donnelly (2014) Transleadership for Transdisciplinarity Issues, World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research, 70:3-4,

164-85, develop the idea of 'transleadership' for leading diverse teams. The key elements are complexity, logic, intersubjectivity, sensemaking, power, leverage, and creating hybrid knowledge.