Pioneer leadership is the disciplined preparation to contribute positively to the messy historical process of improvements and transformations, set-backs and misdirection's that comprise the human journey.

Pioneer leadership links one’s personal life journey with the human journey - integrating self-leadership, with leadership in relationships, organizations, communities, societies and cultures.

The theory behind Pioneer Leadership is a composite picture of ‘leading edge’ capacities and understandings drawn from a broad scope of human caring, striving, failure, achievement and learning, across cultures, world views, disciplines and periods of history.

Pioneer leadership is a work in progress, but many of the principles are clear, and we know more than enough to get on with it. Peux ce que veux. Allons-y

Transformational Leadership

Transformation implies a fundamental change in the structure, function and/or state of things.

Transformations can make things better and/or worse. Typically the term "transformation" assumes a change for the better, but history shows us that this assumption is often naïve. There is nothing more dangerous than a transformational leader – unless that leader is wise and responsible.

Transformation becomes necessary when the adaptive constraints of an existing order (design, system, model, regime, etc…) start to outweigh its advantages and these constraints are so basic and pervasive that they cannot be overcome by operational improvements or modifications.

Computer hardware and software development provide familiar examples of the difference between improvement and transformation. Each new product is followed by a series of upgrades and patches until the practical limits of improving on an existing design is reached, and developmental efforts move on to new and better designs.

Whatever the field of endeavor, the processes of improvement and transformation are inevitably complex, messy, conflicted and uncertain; contingent not only on developing a deep understanding of the ways things work and the ways they can fail – but also how to judge what progress is and what it isn’t, whether it is worth pursuing, how to negotiate opposing forces, and how to mobilize people and resources for the journey.

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