ABSTRACT
Past theories of leadership and organisations assumed fixed roles. This does not fit with the current dynamic environment and in this chapter we introduce ‘Dislocated Complexity Leadership Theory’ involving the concepts of paradox, the logic of difference, dissonance and disjunction, consensus and dissensus. Leaders in Dislocated Complexity accept that serial compromise is inevitable and the decision choices that they make could always have been otherwise. They capitalise on the logic of difference and the paradoxes of Dislocated Complexity and harness them as inflection points for a new state of becoming within a chronically unstable, unpredictable and unknowable context.
