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Human agency has traditionally been associated with free choice. In a time view, time as trajectory represents agency, as actors may choose to foreground some parts of their past or future and background others. A temporal view of leadership or leading points towards how leaders are able to narrative the connection between past and future and convert that narrative into actions in the present. This involves combining continuity and change and avoiding dichotomy between them. It also involves the leader as symbol of past achievements and future challenges. Most accounts of change assume that continuity signifies carrying on with current practices, making change an obvious antithesis to continuity. But if we consider continuity as joining together practices from different epochs, continuity becomes an active process, which effectively becomes a process of change. This is a form of continuity not in opposition to but part and parcel of change. While this form of continuity is not often mentioned explicitly when leaders effect change, many leaders are acutely aware of the importance of leveraging the potential for change by creating a sense of continuity. |
