Chapter 24: Independent Leadership and Shared Governance

The managerial transformation of a company in the retail sector, in a movement of independent leaders, resulting from co-optation and linked together by professional sponsorship, is a complex and exciting process. It obliges the volunteer leaders to make a lasting commitment, in particular, to new management practices and to a change in the way the hierarchy works. The virtues of this transformation (a less solitary experience of management, an increase in the “competence – autonomy” of the different levels of the hierarchy and a measured and relevant acceleration of decision-making) are quite quickly perceptible and sustainably consolidate the company.