The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

Feel it rather than think about it. The moment you create direction and structure (a plan, even a spontaneous one) from the depth of your feeling awareness, you are now creating from a deeper place in you, rather than your often habitual and outcome-driven thinking. This is how a culture of leadership directed by sensitivity is built. One attentive

when you fail to lead from the humanity of your experience, other people will not whole-heartedly follow your leadership because they are human and they have feelings. You won’t create momentum or energy. Vulnerability gives energy; pretending drains it.

My colleague and co-author of Presence, Otto Scharmer, explains a shift in orientation and intention that arises from three “thresholds,” or openings through which we must pass in leading profound change: opening the head, opening the heart, and opening the will.10 The first involves opening ourselves to see and hear what is in front of us but we h

“ACT” with Peace As leaders have privately shared their worries, frustrations, and moments of doubt, I’ve created an easy acronym as a reminder for the ways you can access more peace and satisfaction. “ACT” stands for the following: A = ACCEPT THE MOMENT: Take constructive and effective action for what’s within your control. C = BE CONTENT IN THE M