In their recent article, Yammarino, Salas, Serban, Shirreffs, and Shuffler (2012) argue that the current challenges of contemporary work may call for a renewed conception of leadership, one that is centered less on individual leaders and that relies more on the involvement of multiple individuals taking on leadership roles. From that starting point, they present five different approaches that view leadership as a collective phenomenon, considered both in terms of scientific foundations and practical implications. We share the authors' interest for collectivistic leadership approaches-which we have named elsewhere (Denis, Langley, & Sergi, 2012) leadership in the plural. This commentary is therefore sympathetic to the authors' efforts. However, we wish to extend the authors' discussion of collectivistic approaches to leadership and also to challenge some of the underlying assumptions on which they have based their work.
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