Joe's good at felling trees. Joe teaches others to fell trees and how to pick which ones to take.

Mary is very good with goats. She is the best person in the community to consult about goats.

The Beave is that crazy dude that lives on the mountain, but, if you need a crazy project to be built, he's the one to do it, and he teaches anyone that wants to learn how to weld to weld.

Distributed leadership relies of competence spread across many domains, which one person cannot master. If people value something, a natural distribution tends to occur, and if you can maximize the use of this competence spread, you can have most of your bases covered without having to delve into the nonsense of political hierarchies.

IMO.