Resumen
Leadership is a long studied and interesting topic. As more thinking occurs with regard to different types and flavors, leadership sense-making is something that is done all the time. With this regard, such concepts come to light and often capture and incite our interest and appeal to the situation we are experiencing at the time. This is where we take the concept and reality of pseudo-transformational leadership. Pseudo-transformational leadership is less than authentic and can occur at any time and have a lasting negative outcome. When it is experienced, it can appear as a sudden change in an organizational event or a wind of change that doesnt rear its ugly intention at the time of occurrence. This article will take the reader on a journey of what can occur and how to lean with the gut feeling. It can be a true way of knowing what decisions to make and how to adapt and recover for such change. The metaphor is used as a whitewater raft to paint a visual picture of how this can affect and change an experience from a good or semi-good one to a horrible one, or at least one that is less than tasteful. This can also involve leadership style and behavior and can cause and exacerbate organizational conflict, as can we evidenced through the outcome of this case.