What does effective leadership look like in times of overlapping crises? In this article, our senior expert Marco Mancesti argues that leadership today isn’t just a top-level function — it’s something everyone in the organization must embody. Top management plays a vital role in enabling and catalyzing this universal approach, captured in the concept of “Shadow Art Leadership.”
Inspired by the art form where performers create powerful shapes through coordinated movement, this metaphor highlights how every individual’s contribution matters. In polycrisis times, collective coordination builds resilience across the whole organization.
This article examines how Shadow Art Leadership can turn disruption into organizational breakthroughs. Taken from the Disruption-Fit™️Maturity Scale*, this is what we call impulsion integrity.
* The Disruption-Fit™️Maturity Scale is the model that we use at headtohead to conduct our organizational and leadership diagnostics.