The Practice of Adaptive Leadership
by Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow and Marty Linsky
The field guide to Heifetz's theory: diagnosing the system, mobilizing it, seeing yourself as a system and deploying yourself, with tools and exercises. More usable than the original.
Read it if…
you want to apply adaptive leadership with worksheets and steps.
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Skip it if…
you want the theory; read Leadership Without Easy Answers.
Try instead: A Sense of Urgency →
Three things you will actually use
- Diagnose before you intervene.
- Distinguish role from self.
- Give the work back to the people.
Do this first
Run the diagnostic on your organization's default interpretation of its biggest problem.
Our verdict
The usable field guide.
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