Change
The Practice of Adaptive Leadership
The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World – by Ronald Heifetz This book brings together all of Heifetz’s work to date on adaptive leadership and change, and addressed the complex and ambiguous nature of our current environment. His work here aligns beautifully with all the components we…
Read More5 Principles for Navigating Change
As food for thought, here are 5 principles that will enhance your leadership capacity for navigating change in the midst of uncertainty. We’ll explore them in more detail going forward. Prepare for the unexpected Plan for the expected, knowing it will change Be clear about why, flexible about how Practice safe-fail, since fail-safe is no…
Read MoreTalking about “managing” change
We think the phrases “managing change” or “change management” are misleading – and even potentially problematic. While we can manage a technical fix, we really can’t manage an adaptive change. And using language that implies that we can potentially leads to unrealistic expectations, insufficient preparation, blinders to what’s really going on, and a lack of…
Read MoreAn overview of our Change Model
Change begins with a Current State – how things are right now – and looks forward to, and plans for, a Future State – how we want things to be on the other side of the change. We create a plan – how we think we will get to that Future State – shown here…
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