<![CDATA[This study examines how traditional leadership in Kuta Traditional Village, Ciamis Regency, Indonesia, functions as a form of strategic thinking to sustain local genius amid the pressures of technological disruption. Employing a qualitative literature-based synthesis of 23 peer-reviewed sources, the study finds that leadership legitimacy in Kuta Village is grounded in spiritual and hereditary authority rather than rational-bureaucratic structures, in which the pupuhu lembur and kuncen are regarded as embodiments of ancestors (karuhun), consistent with the Genetic Theory and the Great Man Theory of leadership. This legitimacy underpins an adaptive leadership pattern comprising two complementary dimensions: doing agile, the coordinated operational response to external change, and being agile, the internalization of ancestral belief values that anchors this response. Together, these dimensions enable the community to selectively embrace education, technology, and tourism without eroding customary order. The study concludes that traditional leadership functions not as a passive custodian of static tradition, but as an active strategic agent negotiating openness to disruption and the preservation of local genius.]]>
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