Scholars within the field of Leadership-as-Practice (LAP) address the way that individuals ‘transcend their own immediate embeddedness’ to achieve volitional coherence known as collaborative agency. The process of collaborative agency is described as inseparable from LAP, yet it remains a nascent field of enquiry requiring additional empirical research. This article presents an investigation of collaborative agency through an abductive case study using video ethnography and interviews. To interpret our results, we turn to the Japanese ideogram for ‘place’, known as ‘Ba’. Rather than a physical reality, Ba is considered an existential space in which leadership groups weave together to create and ripen collaborative agency. Ba guides us to look across and around a group and its socio-material practice. We find that collaborative agency is trans-subjective in nature and sits on a spectrum on which we identify the outer reaches, from one end where Ba is woven through to the other end, called Collapse. We suggest that the place of leadership is within the warp and weft of collaborative agency, including but not limited to a special place woven in Ba where collaborative agency is high and where the group reports they are able to transcend their individualism.

领导才能实践（LAP）领域的学者们探讨了个人“超越自身的直接内在性”以实现自愿合作的方式的方法。协作代理的过程被描述为与LAP密不可分，但它仍然是一个新兴的探究领域，需要更多的实证研究。本文通过使用视频人种志和访谈的绑架案例研究，对合作社进行了调查。为了解释我们的结果，我们转向日语表意文字“地方”，即“ Ba”。Ba被认为不是一个存在的空间，而是领导团队编织在一起以创建和成熟协作社的存在空间。巴带领我们看对面和身边一个团体及其社会物质实践。我们发现，合作社本质上是跨主观的，并且位于我们确定外部范围的范围内，从Ba编织的一端到另一端（称为Collapse）。我们建议领导的位置在合作社的经纬之内，包括但不限于在Ba编织的特殊地方，那里的合作社很高，并且该小组报告他们能够超越个人主义。