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Spillane Leadership Roles

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One of the primary duties of an emergency manager is to work to prevent disasters from becoming severely destructive with large amounts of property loss or high mortality rates as I mention in a previous discussion topic. Spillane’s reading this week focused on how distributed leadership is not necessarily focused on one person, but rather it is focused on a number of people who are make up leadership roles. It gives framework that emergency managers can use to help guide leaders in determining if their needs to be one leader or several leaders dependent on the incident being handled. Spillane (2005) stated, “From a distributed perspective, leadership practice takes shape in the interactions of leaders, followers, and their situation, thus

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