Why Change Capability Is The Most Important Missing Competency For Today’s Leaders
Today, leaders wait until there’s a problem before they fix it. This approach must be replaced with a process of continuous learning, continuous improvement, continuous adaptation, and continuous change.
John Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future
The most effective leadership anchors change in the values, competencies, and strategic orientations that should endure in the organization.
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
Exercising adaptive leadership is radically different from doing your job really, really well. It is different from authoritative expertise, and different from holding a high position in a political or organizational hierarchy. It is also different from having enormous informal power in the forms of credibility, trust, respect, admiration, and mora
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needed—because of increased interdependence—is a much larger number of people who have leadership skills, broadly defined.