My intention as a researcher is to conduct a study about leadership focused on the
more invisible or implicit shared or collaborative aspects of the process. These
potentially subtle practices would take careful investigation to uncover. For me, it is an
effort to increase my own understanding and skill level of these less visible and often
“disappeared” (Fletcher, 1999) processes that are integral to shared leadership. My thesis
is that the illusive holy grail of leadership, the part that has been hard for scholars and
researchers to put their fingers on is the same part that is being disappeared, the
collaborative part of the process.