Innovation in Environmental Leadership

Conclusion

Benjamin W. Redekop, Deborah Rigling Gallagher, Rian Satterwhite

A critical perspective on leadership requires us to examine what is, to uncover hidden biases and tired explanations, so that we can work toward what can be. Accordingly, a critical perspective is not one bound by critique alone, but with an eye toward change. This approach is perhaps best described by the philosopher Michel Foucault, who stated, “I don’t construct my analyses in order to say, ‘This is the way things are, you are trapped.’ I say these things only insofar as I believe it enables us to transform them. Everything I do is done with the conviction that it may be of use” (Foucault, 2002, pp. 294–295). In a time of existential crisis in the natural world, ...