The Practice of Adaptive Leadership, Alexander Grashow
The Practice of Adaptive Leadership, Alexander Grashow
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The Practice of Adaptive Leadership
Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

Author: Alexander Grashow, Marty Linsky, Ronald A. Heifetz

Narrator: Daniel Henning

Unabridged: 10 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 11/16/2021

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, and cases 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Elissa on November 14, 2010

I think I was looking for more of an update and deeper dive into the content of "Leadership On the Line." instead it felt like they pulled back from the core of the individual in the larger system and lost the attention to purpose and values or and their quality of analysis. Less from the heart and......more

Goodreads review by Fred on January 07, 2014

I found this book this past year as I was part of a steering committee put together to develop emergency first responders. Cops responding to crisis to be specific who need to be flexible of thought. I have taught and even written on adaptability myself but this book had a great way of explaining wh......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on December 31, 2017

I pretty gave up on the leadership genre of books several years back. I've picked up a few having to do with leadership in the missional church in recent years but found those to basically be more of the same. So,"The Practice of Adaptive Leadership," which was assigned reading for a class, was not......more

Goodreads review by Erika on April 16, 2020

The ideas in this book are critical for anyone engaging in organizational change in the face of complex change. What keeps it from 5 stars is that, as a book, it feels more repetitive and disorganized than it needs to be which makes it harder to focus on the key points. Adaptive leadership is leaders......more

Goodreads review by Brian on August 21, 2013

Realistic treatment of what to expect when being a part of change in an organization. Quotes and illustrations are good, but reviewing a couple of months later I can't remember any jaw-dropping or eye-opening insights. I gave it four stars at the time, so some of its influence must fade after a litt......more

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