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Heifetz, Ronald A. (Ronald Abadian), 1951-

The practice of adaptive leadership : tools and tactics for changing your organization and the world / Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, Marty Linsky.

Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Press, ©2009.

xvi, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"We live in a time of danger and opportunity. Individuals, organizations, communities, and countries must continuously adapt to new realities just to survive. Wanting more, wanting to thrive even under constantly shifting and often perilous conditions, people in all sectors are called on to lead with the courage and skill to challenge the status quo, deploy themselves with agility, and mobilize others to step into the unknown. Ron Heifetz first mapped a bold new theory of "adaptive leadership" in the seminal book Leadership Without Easy Answers. This was followed by the bestselling Leadership on the Line, in which he and longtime Harvard colleague Marty Linsky offered a compelling set of arguments and stories showing how to lead and stay alive through the dangers of change. Now Heifetz and Linsky, joined by Alexander Grashow, have distilled the learning from their combined sixty-plus years of leadership consulting, teaching, and training around the globe into a practical hands-on guide to making your leadership both more effective and more powerful. The Practice of Adaptive Leadership will help you think more clearly and execute better in a constantly shifting environment. It offers a comprehensive and systematic approach to candidly assessing the situation and yourself, and then taking action. Its wisdom and advice are drawn from the experiences of people like you, committed to advancing what you care about most. The book is anchored in the framework of adaptive leadership, but goes beyond the theory to provide a practical set of stories, diagrams, techniques, and activities that will help you both assess and address the toughest challenges that lie ahead. Dozens of tools and tactics are presented in an exciting, clear, and reader-friendly design. The Practice of Adaptive Leadership is your handbook to meeting the challenges of leadership in a complex and rapidly changing world." -- Dust Jacket.

Leadership.

Organizational change.

Grashow, Alexander.

Linsky, Martin.

Adaptive leadership

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-301) and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Purpose and Possibility -- How to Use This Book -- Overview -- Adaptive challenges and Adaptive Capacity -- The Theory Behind the Practice -- The Illusion of the Broken System -- Distinguishing Technical Problems from Adaptive Challenges -- Distinguishing Leadership from Authority -- Living in the Disequilibrium -- Observe, Interpret, Intervene -- Experiment and Take Smart Risks Smartly -- Engage Above and Below the Neck -- Connect to Purpose -- Before You Begin -- Don't Do It Alone -- Live Life as a Leadership Laboratory -- Resist the Leap to Action -- Discover the Joy of Making Hard Choices -- Diagnose the System -- Diagnose the System -- The Elegance and Tenacity of the Status Quo -- Discover Structural Implications -- Surface Cultural Norms and Forces -- Recognize Default Interpretations and Behavior -- Diagnose the Adaptive Challenge -- Determine the Technical and Adaptive Elements -- Listen to the Song Beneath the Words -- Four Adaptive Challenge Archetypes -- Diagnose the Political Landscape -- Uncover Values Driving Behavior -- Acknowledge Loyalties -- Name the Losses at Risk -- Realize Hidden Alliances -- Qualities of an Adaptive Organization -- Name the Elephants in the Room -- Share Responsibility for the Organization's Future -- Value Independent Judgment -- Build Leadership Capacity -- Institutionalize Reflection and Continuous Learning -- Mobilize the System -- Make Interpretations -- Notice When People Are Moving Toward the Left Side of the Chart -- Reframe the Group's Default Interpretations -- Generate Multiple Interpretations -- Audition Your Ideas -- Generate a Diversity of Interpretations -- Design Effective Interventions -- Step 1: Get on the Balcony -- Step 2: Determine the Ripeness of the Issue in the System -- Step 3: Ask, Who Am I in This Picture? -- Step 4: Think Hard About Your Framing -- Step 5: Hold Steady -- Step 6: Analyze the Factions That Begin to Emerge -- Step 7: Keep the Work at the Center of People's Attention -- Act Politically -- Expand Your Informal Authority -- Find Allies -- Stay Connected to the Opposition -- Manage Authority Figures -- Take Responsibility for Casualties -- Protect and Engage the Voices of Dissent -- Orchestrate Conflict -- Create a Holding Environment -- Select Participants -- Regulate the Heat -- Give the Work Back -- Build an Adaptive Culture -- Make Naming Elephants the Norm -- Nurture Shared Responsibility for the Organization -- Encourage Independent Judgment -- Develop Leadership Capacity -- Institutionalize Reflection and Continuous Learning -- See Yourself as a System -- See Yourself as a System -- Your Many Identities -- Identify Your Loyalties -- Prioritize Your Loyalties -- Name Your Unspeakable Loyalties -- Know Your Tuning -- Know Your Triggers -- Hungers and Carrying Water -- Broaden Your Bandwidth -- Discover Your Tolerances -- Understand Your Roles -- What Roles Do You Play? -- Identify Your Scope of Authority -- Articulate Your Purposes -- Prioritize Your Purposes -- The Story You Tell Yourself -- Deploy Yourself -- Stay Connected to Your Purposes -- Negotiate the Ethics of Leadership and Purpose -- Keep Purposes Alive -- Negotiate Your Purposes -- Integrate Your Ambitions and Aspirations -- Avoid Common Traps -- Engage Courageously -- Get Past the Past -- Lean Into Your Incompetence -- Fall in Love with Tough Decisions -- Get Permission to Fail -- Build the Stomach for the Journey -- Inspire People -- Be with Your Audience -- Speak from the Heart -- Run Experiments -- Take More Risks -- Exceed Your Authority -- Turn Up the Heat -- Name Your Piece of the Mess -- Display Your Own Incompetence -- Thrive -- Grow Your Personal Support Network -- Create a Personal Holding Environment -- Renew Yourself -- Notes -- Glossary -- Index -- About the Authors.

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