
The adaptive cycle as a dynamic map for resilience thinking


In an organization with a high capacity to adapt, people share responsibility for the larger organization’s future in addition to their identification with specific roles and functions.
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
THE KEY TO CYCLING BETWEEN MAPPING AND DISCOVERING IS ADAPTING
Adam Kahane • Facilitating Breakthrough: How to Remove Obstacles, Bridge Differences, and Move Forward Together
Adaptive challenges can only be addressed through changes in people’s priorities, beliefs, habits, and loyalties. Making progress requires going beyond any authoritative expertise to mobilize discovery, shedding certain entrenched ways, tolerating losses, and generating the new capacity to thrive anew.