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See Charlie Kiefer’s cameo “Executive Team Leadership,” (page 435).
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
A Basic Diagnostic Framework
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
Send the Right Signals to Your People
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
Adaptive leadership is the practice of mobilizing people to tackle tough challenges and thrive.
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
case-in-point teaching also shifts the locus of action from the teacher to the group—from the individual to the system and the issues at stake. This mode of teaching reveals the multifaceted role in the social system of the teacher, who is at once a teacher giving access to key ideas and frameworks, an authority maintaining equilibrium in the group
... See moreSharon Daloz Parks • Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World
People have long confused the notion of leadership with authority, power, and influence. We find it extremely useful to see leadership as a practice, an activity that some people do some of the time. We view leadership as a verb, not a job.
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
The third reason that you may end up too far out there by yourself is a function of your passion and commitment. Your belief in what you are doing is indispensable to your willingness to take the risks of leading adaptive change. But that same belief can also make you vulnerable.
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
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
... See moreRonald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
These are what we call adaptive challenges, gaps generated by bold aspirations amid challenging realities. For these the world needs to build new ways of being and responding beyond the current repertoires of available know-how. What is needed from a leadership perspective are new forms of improvisational expertise, a kind of process expertise that
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