The values of ensemble leadership from ancient societies have important applications for our post-modern era in which the complexity of the problems we face outpaces hierarchical or capitalist management capability. Included in the paper for the severe context of current times is a brief synopsis of interrelated capitalist structures, as well as historical underpinnings; spawning multiple, ongoing genocides as well as an ongoing ecocide. The focus of this paper is an examination of the leadership structures of the very cultures which capitalism and white supremacy have attempted to destroy, and how they contain the seeds and characteristics which may be more applicable not only at any time but particularly to the present moment of ecological and humanitarian crisis. The primary focus will remain on ensemble leadership with additional examples from servant and transformative leadership.
Leadership must first be contextualized in our vastly interconnected world as global due to economic and digital systems, which link all supply systems and enable instant, meaningful communication from all walks of life. Global leadership is qualitatively as well as quantitatively different than local leadership or management. (Reiche et al., 2017) This entails both task and relationship complexity; task complexity is defined as “demands emanating from the environmental conditions and elements relevant for global leaders to conduct their specific responsibilities.” (Reiche et al, 2017) Relational complexity is categorized by boundaries and interdependence, the interactions of this leadership stratum are “boundary spanning… which may involve the crossing of organizational, industry, market, cultural, economic, and/or industrial boundaries.” (Reiche et al., 2017) Furthermore, global leaders are “Operating simultaneously in multiple environments that require continuous updating,” (Reiche et al., 2017) In addition, as humanity continues to evolve even under a stratification of dire circumstances, “Work demands are shifting from task or managerial duties to communicating vision, building community, and leading change.” (Reiche et al., 2017)
Leadership is defined by both Reiche et al. and Rosile et al. as a participatory, meta level social process involving many dynamic relationships that necessarily creates leaders including inside of and outside prescribed roles within the capitalist system. These relative positions involve both internal and external constituents such as “followers and peers, but also a range of external constituents e.g. regulators, business partners, government-community partnerships, NGO’s, and community leaders,” (Reiche et al., 2017) in what is necessarily a rhizomatic network of relationships. Leadership and management are differentiated in the sense that leaders may not be technically qualified but possess characteristics which create vision, and managers attend to tasks and stability. While both are necessary, lots of management falls into maintaining the status quo. “Leaders conquer the context, the volatile, turbulent, ambiguous surround that sometimes seems to conspire against us, and will surely suffocate us if we let them-while managers surrender to it.” (Kotter 2013, Bennis 1989, Reiche et al., 2017) The demands of leadership vs. management and the social process of creating leaders means that “more individuals across more levels of the organization find themselves engaged in leadership despite lacking formal authority to do so.” (Bird &Mendenhall, 2016, Reichel et al, 2017)
Ensemble leadership is a leadership model which can deliver on contemporary goals; encompassing dynamism, collectivism, decenteredness (anthropologically), and heterarchy. Underlying these concepts is a fifth foundational concept of the native worldview, that of the participatory universe. This means every ‘actor’ as well as all plant and animal life are participants. (Cajete, 2011) These concepts interrelate in many ways; dynamism is a part of the relational aspect of leadership in which leadership is “co-created in the moment,” in a concept called relational constructivism. “The world is constantly in motion, things are constantly undergoing processes of transformation… the essence of life and being is movement. (Gary Witherspoon, 1977) The constant flux notion results in a “spider web” network of relationships. In other words, everything is interrelated.” (Cajete, 2011) Another important underlying concept to highlight is the inherently creative aspect of this model, vs. a static, reductionist approach. This is an important link to the collectivity of leadership processes involving the social relationships in the whole group. (Rosile et al., 2016) The relationships and the collective are viewed as fundamentally important, as in a more traditional society it would be readily apparent that what benefits the collective benefits the individual also. The environment (including time) is also viewed as a co-leader, ‘the antecedent’ of the story, and an independent entity to be respected. “From a human point of view, patterns, cycles, and happenings are readily observed on and from the land. Animal migrations, cycles of plant life, seasons, and cosmic movements… including particular environmental and ecological combinations… all of this happens on earth, hence, the sacredness of the earth.” (Cajete, 2011) The fourth concept is organizational, that of a heterarchy, (rather than a hierarchy), where there are many nodes or leadership, mini-hierarchies that may shift and allow for ease of communication and flexibility in a ‘rhizomatic’ structure. (Rosile et al., 2016) This is a flexible, resilient model for utilizing moments and relationships in building vision and community as well as overcoming complex challenges in a communication focused, community first value system.
Servant leadership values provide a worthwhile repository of insight functionally, especially when applied in context of ensemble leadership. Servant leadership is an orientation to leadership in which leaders inspire through engaging, (rather than coercion, control, or corruption) and place the development and health of ‘followers’ as paramount and important in and of themselves. Importantly, this supports Broaden and Build theory which states that positive emotions build individual’s thought-action repertiore, leading to increased cognitive, social, and physical resources. (Van Dierendonck, 2024) The values of servant leadership create meaning and therefore contribute to flow, work life balance, and improved sleep for the group. (Van Dierendonck, 2024) All of these characteristics increase efficiency, productivity, and creativity and as such is applicable in many scenarios.
Ensemble leadership as well as servant leadership are both focused on the development and empowerment of more leaders through relational dynamics and focused attention on the team. Ensemble leadership has specific built in tools for this in the form of story telling or “quantum story telling” in which the ante narrative or the context of the story as well as the story itself is a dynamic entity, evolving along with social ties in what is at once a deeply human need, (to experience and tell stories); while also providing important information as well as the container to explore power dynamics and empowerment through engagement, (much like the engagement of servant leadership but in a simultaneously more playful and powerful context). (Rosile et al., 2016, Boje et al., 2015) Furthermore, an understanding of and ability to transmit scientific information could be considered essential to survival for our species.
“Discoveries like the use of fire, coming to know key ecological relationships and responsibilities to the natural world, having a sense of how things began and how things are in the natural order, the domestication of plants and animals through agriculture (we would recognize this today as more of a wildcrafting/permaculture practice) the innate affiliation humans have with nature and understanding the orders and cycles of nature are among the first elements of science. From this view, science becomes essentially a story, an explanation of the how and why of the things of nature and the nature of things. The human mind as an extension of nature as a creator of story becomes the fertile ground where myth, science, and our human perception of reality meet.” (Cajete, 2011, parenthetic mine)
Story can also be understood as “an expression of thought regarding the role of humankind in coming to know our place and responsibility to the creative unfolding of the greater story of the universe.” (Cajete, 2011) and as such is an indispensable leadership tool.
These principles are not only true in an informal sense nor do they translate exclusively to qualitative data. As Thomas White states in his book, Transformational Leadership, “One of the simplest truths about business is that the more trust we develop, the greater our true success. A recent study of businesses showed that a decline in trust has a direct connection to a decline in revenues and profits. Yet, businesses continue to fumble in everyday actions to stop a rapid decline. A decline in trust is aggravated by massive breaches in confidence, from data security to fraudulent business practices.”
(White et al., 2020) Social values, meanwhile, have shifted to include concepts like “participation, empowerment, teamwork, and egalitarianism,” (Rosile et al., 2017). Millenials in particular are looking for a workplace that inherently contains and perpetuates meaning, defined as a multi-layered process involving sense-making, purpose (goals) and significance. (Van Dierendonck, 2024). Importantly, servant leadership creates a ‘positive spiral’ by fostering meaning and trust among group members, which in turn leads to greater empowerment, self-determination, and inspiration. (Van Dierendonck, 2024)
The empowerment, inspiration, and participation of group members is relevant because a Native view of knowing the world or ‘science’ is based on ‘perceptual phenomenology’ or the “perception gained from using the entire body of our senses in direct participation with the natural world.” (Cajete 2000) The Native, ensemble, view of our reality is that it is participatory, the object cannot be separated from the viewer, and that nature is alive and responsive itself (in other words, life is a co-creative process). (Cajete, 2000) Therefore in any work a group of people is engaging in, their degree of self-confidence, empowerment, and inspiration is going to greatly alter the trajectory of the project. This is further evidenced by the native perspective of subtlety, the idea that small things have a large impact over time, meaning small actions humans are empowered to take have a large impact over time. (Cajete, 2000) Imagine, given this framework, what an empowered and aware population could achieve by working together and with time and the environment.
By contrast, “For modern science to develop, heretics had to disenchant the world and eradicate all views of nature as infused with living or spiritual forces. This required a frontal attack on the notion that the mind participates in the world…” (Best et al., 2011) Christianity is a commonly used and arguably foundational example of cultural dogma, othering, and placing the earth as subservient to ‘man’ in what might be considered the first evidence of solid philosophical rupture (while simultaneously creating a hierarchical view of life forms, later enabling their wanton destruction). “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” (Genesis 1:26–28, The Bible, emphasis mine).
In a significantly more advanced but not philosophically different paradigm shift, ‘modern science’ (now outdated by recent discoveries in quantum physics) supplied the information to guide industrialization to its current manifestation, beginning with the,
“Copernican shift from a geocentric to a heliocentric universe in the 16th century, advanced in the 17th century with Galileo’s challenge to the hegemony of the church and pioneering use of mechanics and measurement, while bolstered by Bacon’s and Descartes’s call to command and commandeer nature; and reached a high point with Newton’s discoveries of the laws of gravity, further inspiring a mechanistic worldview developed by enlightenment thinkers during the 18th century. For the major arcitects of the modern worldview, Galileo, Galilei, Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, & Issac newton, the cosmos is a vast machine governed by immutable laws which function in a stable and orderly way that can be discerned by rational mind and manipulated for human benefit.” (Best et al., 2011, emphasis mine)
This paradigm of ‘the other’ is used overtly and deliberately to subjugate, enslave, and murder the environment, women, and subsequently entire groups of people for profit and power, (with everything mentally reduced to a mere mechanism to be used for human needs) (Best et al., 2011) spanning vast geographic areas in what is properly understood as one still ongoing process. (Plumelle-Uribe, 2020) The advancement in decomposition of thinking is evident, “I am fairly familiar with tribes in Africa. They are all alike in thinking that they will surrender only to force. Indeed, my policy has always been to exert such force by brutally instilling terror, and sometimes by cruelty. I annihilate the insurgent tribes in streams of blood because this is the only seed that will grow into something new and stable.” (Plumelle-Uribe, 2020) ‘New seeds’ are best planted in ‘rivers of blood.’
This violent philosophy has culminated into the present moment in which the 6th mass extinction of plant and animal life on planet earth is taking place; and six of the nine identified planetary thresholds have been seriously to considerably compromised. As previously mentioned, earth’s systems are highly interconnected and this intentional disturbance of systems is resulting in increasingly severe environmental fluctuations and events. When the earth is pushed too far outside of the parameters detailed by scientists, there will be a ‘point of no return,’ after which earth’s systems will transition into a new, different stable state; the earth will remain and it is extremely likely that humans will eradicate their environmenal niche. (Richardson et al., 2023)
Acts of subjugation of women have become nearly ubiquitous, again Christianity is the philosophical blueprint for this. In the Bible it states, and followers of Christian faith wholeheartedly believe, that Eve came from Adam’s rib. However, there is not a single actual male entity anywhere that did not come from a female vagina. Rather than Eve ‘being’ Adam’s rib, Adam ‘is’ comparatively Eve’s vagina, underscoring the depth of the lie surrounding the importance of the female. Furthermore, the placement of Eve in the story of the fall of ‘man’ as the absolute sinner who ate an apple, effectively portrays femininity culturally as weak in this paradigm of ‘othering’, allowing for rape and control of women which is then used as a weapon of war to systemically weaken and control indigenous populations.
To this very day, international interests arm militias who displace entire communities, rape women and children (including public and gang rape) in order to permanently damage and socially osctasize them, crippling the community and perpetuating slavery and illicit extraction of resources to power the ‘global north’. This is well documented and evident in all contemporary modern warzones, specifically Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo. (Genocost.org) The fundamental truth is the importance of women as foundational to the health of society is paramount, and a major reason for continued subjugation. Many indigenous societies practiced matrilineal land ownership and social power structures. If we must ask ourselves why, this is most clearly exemplified in the simple fact that even after patriarchical co-option of land ownership, women are still the caretakers of the home in every single culture. Without a home, what does one have? “Women empowerment is assumed to be a prerequisite for any meaningful effort to: eradicate poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV/AIDS.” (Njoh & Ananga, 2016) This is largely due to the fact that women are more likely to spend household income on food and education for the family. (Njoh & Ananga, 2016) Thus achieving empowerment for women globally is a non-negotiable leadership target in reversing the effects of the death process of othering and colonization.
Major points of this ongoing ‘colonization’ process from a human and environmental perspective historically have included extraction and destruction of the material resources of at least two continents, (the uncontrolled use of which catalyzed worldwide environmental collapse) and the subjugation, genocide, and enslavement of Indigenous people on Turtle Island and African people. Contemporary estimates place the genocide of the ‘Americas’ at around 100 million people, while the transatlantic slave trade comprised at least 12.5 million souls and 2 million deaths. (Plumelle-Uribe, 2020) The genocidal extraction of resources is ongoing in the DRC with approximately 6 million people dead and 7.2 million people displaced; the previous genocost, occurring under ‘King Leopold II’ and involving “the brutal exploitation of rubber and other natural resources,” (Genocost.org) killed 10-13 million Congolese or half of the indigenous popluation. (Genocost.org.) These indigenous communities had built over vast expanses of time and experience the communal structures and lifeways to cultivate and preserve the resources which Europeans find so useful to plunder. It is well worth examining this construction of the ‘other’ as uncivilized, when their lifeways support and perpetuate life, while the Christian or Aryan worldview, much younger relatively speaking, has been used exclusively to deliberately cause harm and end life.
There are many vested interests in the capitalist system continuing including weapons manufacturing industries, tech companies, shipping companies, and last but certainly not exhaustively or least, politicians, universities, and western media. (Best, et al., 2011) Given the advent of more advanced technologies, society has now encountered the absolutely surreal capital powered, hierarchically structured and ordered ‘genocide of the future’ in which bad actors are at the wheel, increasingly advanced and destructive technology is researched and manufactured (for a profit), sold to colonial outposts, (again, merely for individual profits) to absolutely maim and destroy life in every possible way. (Best et al., 2011)
The most contemporary example of this is, of course, what continues to unfold in Palestine. Independent and on the ground reporters have recorded absolute droves of information and eyewitness testimony about direct and deliberate targeting of civilians, women, children, healthcare workers, and journalists, the use of AI surveillance, the use of drones, and the use of specialized material intended to cause severe mutilation of tissue, not to mention prolonged imprisonment and torture of children and innocent civilians, many of whom are civil servants acting in life supporting roles. This is repackaged and sold to the general western public by ‘media’ in what has become not only a mockery of the sanctity of life but also of the truth, of integrity, morals, and justice everywhere. (Amnesty International)
Hierarchical management, the implicit management structure in capitalism not only will not be able to meet the needs of the moment or the needs of the future but is also incapable of digesting multiplicity, co-operating synergistically the way we would observe in the natural environment, and perhaps most importantly incapable of sustaining life the way other cultures, leaders, and life-ways, do. The violence of the ‘colonizer’, or, the one who believes in a world of lesser beings available for exploitation by mechanized processes for profit, is clear in this light. With no moral compass of connection, and yet a participant in the inescapable connectedness that is reality, the colonizer is at an indescribable impasse where he believes he can and must secure his imaginary individual physical security ‘by any means necessary’, and yet in conducting ‘his business’ including mass rape and femicide of women, three concurrent genocides, and one very big ecocide, he is conducting a universal crime so heinous he cannot come to terms with himself, cannot face what he has done and continues to do, cannot begin to process the shame of his very existence, posesses no framework for reconnecting himself to his surroundings and therefore himself, and thus becomes increasingly disconnected and violent, entrenched in a pedagogy of singularity in what is truly a pluralistic, interconnected world.
Amnesty International Amnesty concludes Israel is committing genocide in Gaza
This resource is a very brief overview (there is also a 300 page report) of the deliberate genocide perpetrated by Israel in Palestine. It is extremely relevant as the financial and political systems related to the genocide have a far reaching impact both in the United States and around the world including Congo, where Israeli billionares are funding the extraction of diamonds and other materials in a continued genocost. This resource is important for this paper as a time relevant example of the ongoing processes of industrialized capitalism.
Best, Steven., Kahn, Richard., Nocella, Anthony J., & McLaren, Peter. (2011). The Global Industrial Complex : Systems of Domination. Lexington Books.
This book is a series of essays by prominent thinkers about the interconnected systems of global industrialism including a basic synopsis of how they originated, and their current effect on society which is essentially to negate and extinguish many life forms in order to perpetuate themselves in service to an increasingly concentrated power elite.
Contribotors include Noam Chompsky, Ward Churchill, and Vandana Shiva, all prominent activists and thinkers in their fields. This work is timeless and timely, and is a major piece of the argument in this paper showing how these systems do not serve our continuation as a species in any way.
Boje, D. M., Rosile, G. A., Saylors, J., & Saylors, R. (2015). Using Storytelling Theatrics for Leadership Training. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 17(3), 348-362. https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422315587899
This resource is about the different methods of story telling or role playing that can bring about empowerment for all members of the group by exploring hidden power dynamics in modern organizations. This acts as a catalyst for members of the group to see the leadership qualities that all members possess, and creates equality by increased perspective. This is relevant to my work in dissecting power dynamics and the harmful effects of hierarchical leadership.
The authors are well published, the accomplishments of Graceann Rosile are discussed in another annotation. David Boje has published 120 journal articles and 17 books and is a professor at New Mexico State University. He is a prolific thinker with numerous accolades. Both authors a re extremely relevant in providing viable frameworks for leadership change.
Cajete, Gregory. (2000) Native Science. Santa Fe, N.M. : Clear Light Publishers
This book is an in depth examination of the Native or Indigenous way of meaning-making, exploring, and explaining the phenomena of the universe and our place in it. An essential premise of ‘Native Science’ is the observer effect, or the understanding that the person or people doing the meaning making are part of the phenomena. This is important because it allows for the understanding of responsibility and the interconnectedness of all things.
Gregory Cajete, Ph.D., is a Tewa author and professor from Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico. He is currently the Director of the Native American Studies program and associate professor of education at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and has received numerous honors and fellowships to continue his work in explaining indigenous perspectives and how they relate, differ, illuminate, and contribute to a western science perspective. This is foundational to this paper as the western model clearly is a malfunction and we need to learn how to think from a different perspective and dimension in order to begin to address this.
What is the Geno-Cost – Genocost.org
This is an internet resource created by Congolese Youth to articulate and advocate for themselves in what is a largely deliberate obfuscation of the truth by Western Media. I think it is important to include the voices of the oppressed as part of the very framework my paper espouses; the voices of the oppressed are the most important and must be included as part of a participatory framework focused on engagement and empowerment.
Njoh, A., & Ananga, E. (2016). The Development Hypothesis of Women Empowerment in the Millennium Development Goals Tested in the Context Women’s Access to Land in Africa. Social Indicators Research, 128(1), 89–104. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-015-1020-8
The purpose of this article is to elucidate the connections between at least 7 of the 8 millennium development goals and the empowerment of women, and the connection between women ownership of land and being able to empower themselves in Africa. The Millenium Development Goals are as follows: (1) halving extreme poverty rate; (2) providing universal primary education; (3) promoting gender equality and empowering women, (4) reducing child mortality, (5) improving maternal health, (6) combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, (7) ensuring environmental sustainability, and (8) promoting global partnership for development.
Erick O Ananga Ph.D. is an associate professor published multiple times with the bulk of his work focusing on millennium or sustainable development goals in various countries in Africa including sustainable development, water access, and women’s empowerment. Ambe J. Njoh, Ph.D. is a Professor of Environmental Science & Policy at the University of South Florida. His work focuses on the sociology of planning in Africa in the context of globalization. This work is important because it shows concrete connections in the power of women in communities uplifting their communities, a direct representation of ensemble leadership and direct evidence in contradiction to the efficacy of capitalism.
Plumelle-Uribe, Amelia. (2020). White Ferocity : The Genocides of Non-Whites and Non-Aryans From 1492 to Date. Codesria.
The purpose of this book is to name and make clear the origin and connections between white supremacy, capitalism, and the perpetration of violence all over the world against people of colour. The book details white supremacy as a construct, a construct used widely to dehumanize people of colour and thus allow vast violence in the name of accumulating capital, (money), the new form of power. The book makes clear that Nazi-ism (and, we can extrapolate the U.S. war machine and Zionism) are not anomalies in a forward thinking society but rather the natural and deeply embedded outgrowth of capitalism and white supremacy.
Amelia Plumelle-Uribe is a France based lawyer, essayist, human rights advocate and prominent thinker in re-imagining the ‘South-North’ relationship. Her work spans decades and remains as relevant as ever considering capitalism’s waning but still sizeable impact. This book informs a large degree of thinking in my own work, the backbones of which are ideologically aligned regarding the implications of greed and white supremacy for the rest of the world.
Reiche, B. S., Bird, A., Mendenhall, M. E., & Osland, J. S. (2017). Contextualizing leadership: a typology of global leadership roles. Journal of International Business Studies, 48(5), 552-572. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-016-0030-3
The purpose of this article is to categorize domains of management and leadership and most importantly global leadership. Global leadership is vastly different from local forms of management due to the exponential increase in complexity that accompanies both task completion and relationship building across languages, cultures, and geographies. The article is another piece that illustrates the intense need for dynamic leadership that goes across pre-programmed hierarchical constructs, and supports the ensemble leadership model in illustrating leadership as a social process occurring with or without formal designation.
Dr. B. Sebastian Reiche is a Professor of Managing People in Organizations at IESE Business School, University of Navarra. This article was published in 2017 and is still relevant perhaps now more so with the increasing use of social media. His work in categorizing dimensions of global leadership (task, relational, ‘job expectations’) is foundational to understanding the main ideas of this paper about ensemble leadership in the modern era and how ensemble leadership contributes to a robust deconstruction of capitalist control systems.
Richardson, Katherine et al., Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries. Sci. Adv. 9, eadh2458 (2023). DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adh2458
This article is a relatively contemporary assessment of Earth’s current condition regarding important environmental systems. This information is important because western society and the management structures implicit in the environmental structure of capitalism are the culprits. The author is a Professor in Biological Oceanography, leader of the Sustainability Science Centre and a researcher for the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate at the University of Copenhagen.
Rosile, G. A., Boje, D. M., & Claw, C. M. ( 2016 ). Ensemble leadership theory: Collectivist, relational, and heterarchical roots from indigenous contexts. Leadership. Advance online publication. http://doi.org.csuglobal.idm.oclc.org/10.1177/1742715016652933
The purpose of this article is to inform the reader of ensemble leadership theory and how it differs in important ways from hierarchical leadership. Primary examples of this include dynamic, relationship based, heterarchical models which function more like a root system than a pyramid. The deconstruction of the leader-follower dualism is inherent to this pedagogy, engaging with leadership as a co-creative social process in which leadership is shared and focused on the collective as a fundamental philosophy.
Dr. Graceann Rosile is a Professor Emeritus at New Mexico State University. She is widely published and contributes to organizational leadership training in addition to academic work. This article was published in 2018, her work remains pertinent and timeless as it deals with the evolutionary capacity of humans. Her work forms a very important basis for this article as one of the primary ideologies in the assessment; deconstructing capitalist control systems through mutually empowering leadership relationships.
Van Dierendonck, D., Lv, F., & Xiu, L. (2024). Servant leadership, meaningfulness and flow: an upward spiral. Journal of Positive Psychology, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2024.2427578
This article is an important piece about the inherent mechanisms of servant leadership which create positive spirals of productivity and health among group members. This is timely and relevant as we experience economic shifts and burnout in the capitalist empire. This information is particularly relevant to the ensemble leadership theory in that they share many of the same philosophies including the importance of every member in the group, and leading through engagement.
The author is a prolific thinker and writer, published numerous times. He is Professor of Leadership and Management, Rotterdam School of Management and studies the intersectionality of creating healthy atmospheres at work through servant leadership and compassion, and spiritual well being and harmonious and productive projects.
White, T., Secretan, L., Sisodia, R., Heffernan, M., Heckler, R., Lawrence, P. R., Horsager, D., Benyus, J., & Babauta, L. (2020). Transformational Leadership. THiNKaha.
This is a business oriented piece by a business coach who has a wide following in transformational leadership circles. This work is important because it shows how even within the ideological confines of capitalist business, oppression, othering, and hierarchy are counterproductive. He focuses on building trust and creating relationships which are the same principles espoused in ensemble and servant leadership, lending credence to the argument for pedantic thinkers.
Global Sisterhood 