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Healthy adaptation involves the ability to perform six tasks:12 1. Assess what the environment is calling for. 2. Inventory existing strategies. 3. Apply one strategy that appears to be the best fit. 4. Watch to see if it works. 5. Modify the strategy. 6. Add the newly modified tactic to the existing repertoire.
Betsy Keefer Smalley • Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Families
adaptation: a change in a plant or animal that makes it better able to live in a particular place or situation; the process of changing to fit some purpose or situation: the process of adapting
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy
Zoe Scaman • Forty Years, Forty Lessons
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Tom Vanderbilt • You May Also Like
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:
As the name of the approach implies, adaptive leadership is about how leaders encourage people to adapt—to face and deal with problems, challenges, and changes.