Sublime

With this cognitive capacity one can question authority, group norms, and the inherited status quo. In the Western world, Achievement-Orange thinking started to poke holes in the Conformist-Amber world of Christian certainties during the

Different people have different things to learn, and by the end of the term, my aim would be for people to have learned a lot that was relevant to them in regard to their own capacity to mobilize their communities or their organizations to make progress on the hardest of problems, which is what I think leadership is about—mobilizing people to make

What makes some organizations more adaptive than others? We’ve identified five key characteristics: 1. Elephants in the room are named. 2. Responsibility for the organization’s future is shared. 3. Independent judgment is expected. 4. Leadership capacity is developed. 5. Reflection and continuous learning are institutionalized.

EFFECTIVE INTERVENTIONS MOBILIZE people to tackle an adaptive challenge. They may be designed to make progress at any point in the process:

The practice of leadership, like the practice of medicine, involves two core processes: diagnosis first and then action. And those two processes unfold in two dimensions: toward the organizational or social system you are operating in and toward yourself.

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.