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The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
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The notion of understanding yourself as a system challenges the idea that we each have one “self.”
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
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:
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Get Past the Past To lead adaptive change, you have to refashion loyalties; that is, have a conversation both in your heart and in person with people to whom you have loyalty in which you explain to them why the current situation requires you to sift through their expectations of you, honoring many of them but not all.
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
“Instead of looking for saviors, we should be calling for leadership that will challenge us to face problems for which there are no simple painless solutions—problems that require us to learn new ways,” wrote Heifetz.[10]
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Your boss and other senior authority figures are essential to any intervention you try to lead. To sustain their support, you need to do more than just figure out how they feel personally about the adaptive issue you are seeking to address. First, you need to prepare them for the disequilibrium you are going to generate in the organization. Second,
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