The Practice of Adaptive Leadership
Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
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The guide to approaching leadership in a rapidly changing world.
When change requires you to challenge people's familiar reality, it can be difficult, dangerous work. Whatever the context--whether in the private or the public sector--many will feel threatened as you push though major changes. But as a leader, you need to find a way to make it work.
Ron Heifetz first defined this problem with his distinctive theory of adaptive leadership in Leadership Without Easy Answers. In a second book, Leadership on the Line, Heifetz and coauthor Marty Linsky highlighted the individual and organizational dangers of leading through deep change in business, politics, and community life. Now, Heifetz, Linsky, and coauthor Alexander Grashow are taking the next step: The Practice of Adaptive Leadership is a hands-on, practical guide containing stories, tools, diagrams, cases, and worksheets to help you develop your skills as an adaptive leader, able to take people outside their comfort zones and assess and address the toughest challenges.
The authors have decades of experience helping people and organizations create cultures of adaptive leadership. In today's rapidly changing world, The Practice of Adaptive Leadership can be your handbook to meeting the demands of leadership in the midst of complexity.
Marty Linsky
Marty Linsky is a cofounder of CLA and has taught at the Kennedy School for more than twenty-five years.
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Alexander Grashow
A recognized authority on leadership and change, Alexander Grashow has been a confidential advisor to presidents, activists, and change agents in their most critical moments of transition. Grashow is a renowned facilitator, speaker, and advisor to leaders around the world, with a broad reach into the global business, philanthropic, entrepreneurial, and creative communities. For the last two decades, Grashow has created programs that are uplifting, challenging, highly interactive, and grounded on the principle that the capacity to adapt and evolve is vital to each of us. He has shown repeatedly that these capacities can be internalized quickly and deployed effectively to create new value, well-being, and contribution. With a deep commitment to sharing what works, Alexander coauthored The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World, from Harvard Business Review Press. He is also coauthor of the Harvard Business Review article "Leadership in a Permanent Crisis." In 2015, Grashow founded Good Wolf Group as the next evolution in leadership, business, and personal development practice. He performs his work with a mix of logic, creativity, truth, and grace.
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