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The Theory Behind the Practice: A Brief Introduction to the Adaptive Leadership Framework
Heifetz, Ronald; Grashow, Alexander; Linsky, MartyBook Chapter HBS-3241BC-ELeadership and People ManagementThese are extraordinary times. Change is all around and the challenges of adapting and remaining competitive are urgent. Now, more than ever, leaders must be equipped to handle adaptive challenges and build the adaptive capacity of their organizations. FiStarting at €8.20
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Orchestrate Conflict: Leading Adaptive Change by Surfacing and Managing Conflict
Heifetz, Ronald; Grashow, Alexander; Linsky, MartyBook Chapter HBS-3282BC-ELeadership and People ManagementEveryone has a different capacity for tolerating conflict. Some people are comfortable working through conflict, while most avoid it entirely. But surfacing the relevant conflicts is essential if you want to generate progress on adaptive issues. To do this well requires an approach to conflict that teases out the unacknowledged differences in perspectives on the issues that may be preventing the organization from reaching its goals. It requires a...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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Broaden Your Bandwidth: Knowing Your Strengths and Weaknesses and How They Impact Your Ability to Lead Adaptive Change
Heifetz, Ronald; Grashow, Alexander; Linsky, MartyBook Chapter HBS-3287BC-ELeadership and People ManagementYour bandwidth--your repertoire of techniques for moving adaptive change forward in your organization--is a key element in the complex system that is you, the leader of adaptive change. These techniques span the spectrum from graceful and inspired rhetoric to in-your-face confrontation. Depending on the situation and the people involved, you have to be able to mix and match techniques as needed. This chapter will help you diagnose your current re...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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Know Your Tuning: How Do Your Default Responses to Environmental Factors Affect Your Ability to Lead Adaptive Change
Heifetz, Ronald; Grashow, Alexander; Linsky, MartyBook Chapter HBS-3286BC-ELeadership and People ManagementEach person is like a stringed instrument, tuned in a slightly different way from everyone else. Your tuning derives from many different things: your childhood experiences, genetic predispositions, cultural background, gender, and loyal identifications with various current and historic groups. Those strings vibrate continuously, communicating to those around you who you are, what is important to you, where your sensitivities lie, and how you migh...Starting at €8.20
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Articulate Your Purposes: Identifying the Motivations behind the Drive to Lead Adaptive Change
Heifetz, Ronald; Grashow, Alexander; Linsky, MartyBook Chapter HBS-3289BC-ELeadership and People ManagementTaking on adaptive challenges isn't easy. The only reason you would want to do this kind of work is to serve purposes that matter to you deeply. Identifying your higher purposes--figuring out what is so important to you that you would be willing to put yourself in peril--is a key element in the process of understanding yourself on a deep level. Understanding your purposes will help you orient yourself and your decisions within a larger context, w...Starting at €8.20