The Work of Leadership
The five skills, in the author's words, are cross-cutting, collaborating, coaching, culture shaping, and connecting.
Cross-cutting: developing networks that extend to a diversity of people,
Collaborating: fostering psychological safety to increase team performance,
Coaching: having critical conversations that develop others’ potential,
Culture shaping:
Adaptive leadership requires understanding the group’s culture and assessing which aspects of it facilitate change and which stand in the way.
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
Exercising adaptive leadership requires that you be willing and competent at stepping into the unknown and stirring things up. Most people prefer stability to chaos, clarity to confusion, and orderliness to conflict. But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict, for yoursel
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