This means that one of the first overall tasks of leadership is to educate the people around you—junior, senior, lateral, and across boundaries—that adaptive challenges are fundamentally different from technical problems. You need to create the latitude to treat each kind of situation differently—technical problems with expertise, and adaptive chal

At least five major constraints can hold you back from summoning courage for the work of leadership: • Loyalties to people who may not believe you are doing the right thing • Fear of incompetence • Uncertainty about taking the right path • Fear of loss • Not having the stomach for the hard parts of the journey