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Run Experiments: Leading Adaptive Change with an Experimental Mindset
Heifetz, Ronald; Grashow, Alexander; Linsky, MartyBook Chapter HBS-3294BC-ELeadership and People ManagementLeadership is an improvisational art. Everything you do in leading adaptive change is an experiment. Many people, however, fail to see it that way, feeling and succumbing to the enormous pressure to produce certain results from their actions. Framing everything as an experiment offers you more room to try new strategies, to ask questions, to discover what's essential, what's expendable, and what innovation can work. This chapter will help you ado...Starting at €8.20
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Leadership in a (Permanent) Crisis
Heifetz, Ronald; Grashow, Alexander; Linsky, MartyArticle HBS-R0907F-ELeadership and People ManagementThe current economic crisis is not just another rough spell. Today's mix of urgency, high stakes, and uncertainty will continue even after the recession ends. The immediate crisis - which we will get through with policy makers' expert technical adjustments - sets the stage for a sustained, or even permanent, crisis, a relentless series of challenges no one has encountered before. Instead of hunkering down and relying on their familiar expertise t...Starting at €8.20
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Leadership in a (Permanent) Crisis (Spanish version)
Heifetz, Ronald; Grashow, Alexander; Linsky, MartyArticle HBS-R0907FLeadership and People ManagementThe current economic crisis is not just another rough spell. Today's mix of urgency, high stakes, and uncertainty will continue even after the recession ends. The immediate crisis - which we will get through with policy makers' expert technical adjustments - sets the stage for a sustained, or even permanent, crisis, a relentless series of challenges no one has encountered before. Instead of hunkering down and relying on their familiar expertise t...Starting at €8.20
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Note on Taxation
Poorvu, William J.; Segel, Arthur I; Miller, Glenn S.; Krummer, Michael D.; Wu, Charles F; Sit, Po; Gerstel, Joseph M.Case HBS-379192-EFinanceEvery real-estate transaction is affected by the tax consequences that result from its form and substance. Structuring a transaction without a thorough understanding of its tax considerations is likely to reduce the transaction's potential value. The failure to utilize the available tax benefits eliminates one of the major reasons for making a real-estate investment.Starting at €8.20
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Experiencya Cuba: Two Entrepreneurs in Havana
Wu, Charles F; Cal, Mariana; Miguel, FernandaCase HBS-220024-EEconomicsIn 2019, two Cuban entrepreneurs discussed their growth strategy, given the regulatory framework instability, for private companies, in Cuba. Experiencya Cuba offered car and apartment rentals, airport pick-up, and tours around the island, all conducted in perfectly restored American cars from the 1950s.Starting at €8.20
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Design Effective Interventions: Mobilizing People to Tackle an Adaptive Challenge
Heifetz, Ronald; Grashow, Alexander; Linsky, MartyBook Chapter HBS-3280BC-ELeadership and People ManagementEffective interventions mobilize people to tackle an adaptive challenge. They may be designed to make progress at any point in the process: for example, to surface a difficult issue, quash a diversion, or move people forward through a difficult period. At whatever stage of the process you are intervening, this chapter provides a checklist, a series of practices that can make your interventions more effective. This chapter was originally published...Starting at €8.20
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Diagnose the System: The First Step in Leading Adaptive Change
Heifetz, Ronald; Grashow, Alexander; Linsky, MartyBook Chapter HBS-3275BC-ELeadership and People ManagementThe first step in tackling any adaptive challenge is to take a step back so you can see how your organizational system is responding to it. From this perspective, you will gain a clearer view of your company's structures, culture, and default responses to problems. You will grasp the nature of the adaptive challenges at hand, and map the networks of political relationships that will be relevant to how effectively you mobilize people to deal with ...Starting at €8.20
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Before You Begin: Preparing Yourself for the Challenges of Adaptive Leadership
Heifetz, Ronald; Grashow, Alexander; Linsky, MartyBook Chapter HBS-3274BC-ELeadership and People ManagementTo successfully lead adaptive change, you must connect with the values, beliefs, and anxieties of the people you are trying to move. But in addition to mobilizing others, adaptive leadership requires you to do some introspective work as well. Practicing adaptive leadership is difficult on the one hand and profoundly meaningful on the other--it is not something you should enter into casually. This chapter provides four tips to consider before taki...Starting at €8.20
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Qualities of an Adaptive Organization: How Does Your Organization Measure Up
Heifetz, Ronald; Grashow, Alexander; Linsky, MartyBook Chapter HBS-3278BC-ELeadership and People ManagementDiagnosing the organizational system, the adaptive challenge at hand, and the political landscape in an enterprise takes time, careful thought, and courage. You have to improvise creatively and responsively as you engage stakeholders inside and across the boundaries of your organization. Some organizations have the keen external sensors, internal norms, and a critical mass of people to do this. What distinguishes these enterprises? What makes som...Starting at €8.20
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Make Interpretations: Helping Your Team Recognize and Deal with Adaptive Challenges
Heifetz, Ronald; Grashow, Alexander; Linsky, MartyBook Chapter HBS-3279BC-ELeadership and People ManagementWhen a problem is identified, people gravitate toward interpretations of the problem that are technical rather than adaptive, benign instead of conflictual, and individual rather than systemic. These kinds of problems are seen as having easy, painless solutions. Your job in exercising adaptive leadership is to wean people away from these interpretations and nudge them towards recognizing adaptive elements of the challenge, with the ultimate goal ...Starting at €8.20