Knowledge is the capacity for effective action | Conversational Leadership
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Knowledge is the capacity for effective action | Conversational Leadership
Are you producing knowledge? Knowledge, in this case, means the capacity for effective action. Does your organization show capabilities it didn’t have before?
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
The single most important skill and most undervalued capacity for exercising adaptive leadership is diagnosis.
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
"Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual; they fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work."
Peter Drucker • The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)
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
... See moreRonald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
No amount of "knowledge transfer" will help unless you can use the knowledge to decide what to do in that difficult situation.
Cathy Moore • Map It: The hands-on guide to strategic training design
It needs to shift from knowing as an inner stance. There’s a big problem with the stance of knowing. It’s the idea that I need to know something before I can take action.