leadership

leadership

Ch1

• identify the work to be done

<b><u>Leadership</u></b>

• <b><u>The work to be done</u></b>

• <b><u>the practice of mobilizing people to meet tough challenges</u></b>
• <b><u>Building something does</u></b>

<b><u>Problem definition and problem solution</u></b>

<b><u>Identify a leadership challenge</u></b> that you’ve experienced and respond to the prompts

Adaptive Challenges requires <b><u>change</u></b>

• people love change, they <b><u>fear loss</u></b>
• what to conserve, what to give up, and what innovations

Leadership is <b><u>the practice of adaptive work</u></b>

• <b><u>creating with people new capacity to meet the challenges</u></b> they face to thrive in our changing and challenging world

<b><u>Adaptive problems, you cannot take the problem off people’s shoulders</u></b>

• <b><u>with adaptive problems, the people themselves are part of the problem</u></b>

The best they can do is to

<b><u>frame up the right questions</u></b>,

<b><u>identify the key realities</u></b> that need to be addressed,

and <b><u>then challenge people to take responsibility for</u></b> tacking those problems

Leadership begins with a whole diagnostic task

• how do we distinguish the parts of the challenge that are technical from the parts that are adaptive

+ <b><u>what existing capacities are relevant</u></b>?

• break the adaptive challenge component into parts

+ <b><u>look for where change</u></b>

• competent
• is happening

Ch2

• lead with, beyond, and without authority