This can lead to conflicts and there is danger in getting trapped in the conflict. The transition manager discovers and invents the rules to a new game, but still has one foot firmly planted into the world of the old game. The old game is based on rule-based authority. For authority to exist, the game must be defined. As long as the new game remains undefined, there will be no authority in the way most of us understand the word.
Creative people define a new authority.
Part of what the transition manager struggles to understand is how feedback, design and decision making operate in the creative process where there is no central authority. Throughout history, creative people disconnect from their society at some point in their lives. Often they return to society as social critics in art or poetry. Creative people are in the vanguard of transformation but they are rarely transition managers. Transition managers cannot afford the luxury of disconnecting with society in order to explore new frontiers.