#💡 #🟠 # transforming vs transformational leadership ![[calendar-plus.svg]] <small>Nov 01, 2022</small> | ![[calendar-clock.svg]] <small>Jan 03, 2023</small> 🏷️ [[Leadership MOC]] Palmer captures the essence of what I hope to be as a leader when he describes good teaching as the intentional act of creating conditions that help their students be successful (2017, p. 7). He goes on to say that good teachers can "weave a complex web of connections among themselves, their subjects, and their students so that students can learn to weave a world for themselves" (p. 11).  That fits with my desire to be more of a facilitator than a director. It's also in line with Carey's description of the transforming leader who converts the follower into a leader by facilitating the follower's developmental growth (1999, p.98). However, I didn't feel the same deep sense of connection in reading Northouse's chapter on transformational leadership (2019, pp.161-196). Northouse does criticize the model for its lack of conceptual clarity (p. 180) and points out other criticisms that it is self-centered and antidemocratic (p. 181). That is where the model lost me. I don't seek to be the one with the vision, as if I have all the right answers, charismatically leading others to follow me there. I seek to lead those around me to help develop the vision together. ## Sources [[Heraclitean Fire - Carey 1999]] [[Leadership Theory and Practice - Northouse 2019]] [[The Courage to Teach - Palmer 2017]]