The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World - Hardcover

Heifetz, Ronald A.; Linsky, Marty; Grashow, Alexander

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1422105768 ISBN 13: 9781422105764

Publisher: Harvard Business Press, 2009

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky are cofounders and Principals of Cambridge Leadership Associates and authors of previous books on adaptive leadership, with over fifty years of teaching and leadership consulting experience between them. Alexander Grashow is Cambridge Leadership Associates Director of Consulting Practice and has extensive experience as a leadership consultant, teacher, and trainer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard Business Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1422105768
• ISBN 13: 9781422105764
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352