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The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World Hardcover – May 18, 2009
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The guide to approaching leadership in a rapidly changing world.
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.
- Print length352 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarvard Business Press
- Publication dateMay 18, 2009
- Dimensions7.5 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches
- ISBN-101422105768
- ISBN-13978-1422105764
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Ronald Heifetz is a cofounder of the international leadership and consulting practice Cambridge Leadership Associates (CLA) and the founding director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is renowned worldwide for his innovative work on the practice and teaching of leadership. Marty Linsky is a cofounder of CLA and has taught at the Kennedy School for more than twenty-five years.
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Marty Linsky:- hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/marty-linsky
- cambridge-leadership.com/team-member/marty-linsky/
- facebook.com/marty.linsky
- linkedin.com/in/marty-linsky; mobile.twitter.com/martylinsky
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- Publisher : Harvard Business Press; 1st edition (May 18, 2009)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 352 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1422105768
- ISBN-13 : 978-1422105764
- Item Weight : 1.53 pounds
- Dimensions : 7.5 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #35,432 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #642 in Leadership & Motivation
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Ron Heifetz is a cofounder and Principal of Cambridge Leadership Associates and the author of numerous books on adaptive leadership, with over fifty years of teaching and leadership consulting experience between them.
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I loved this book. Practical, clear layout and presentation of materials, challenging, and hopeful. The thing is - this is not about abstraction, this is about personal responsibility, commitment, courage, and action. If you see something that needs to be done, what are you doing about it?!
The book is organized into 5 parts:
1. Introduction: purpose and possibility - you are provided with instructions on how to use the book along with the theoretical underpinnings and background
2. Diagnosis: The system, the adaptive challenge, and the political landscape. Characteristics of an adaptive organization are identified
3. System Mobilization - Interpretation and Analysis, Interventions, political capital and actions, conflict, and building an adaptive culture
4. Seeing yourself - knowing yourself, clarify who you are, what you stand for, and your purposes
5. Deploy yourself - this is the personal responsibility part, connect to your purposes, engage courageously, inspire others, take risks, and thrive.
It's a wonderful book for self reflection and personal growth; it's a wonderful book for leaders wanting to examine leadership and see their organization anew.
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Os autores constroem um modelo que primeiro delineia o tipo de situação que pode ser considerado um "problema adaptativo", depois seguem para ensinar como entender o sistema, depois ensinam como mobilizar o sistema e finalizam com uma proposta de uma brilhante jornada de autoconhecimento.
Você encontrará uma lista abrangente de exercícios para desenvolvimento das competências essenciais a liderança. Tudo aqui passa uma impressão de maturidade, de cuidado e de eficiência. São conteúdos extraordinários que, mesmo tendo lido diversos livros de negócios, me surpreenderam várias vezes. Li com calma porque vale a pena refletir sobre tudo que é apresentado aqui, como por exemplo:
1) O processo iterativo para a liderança de mudanças que segue os três passos: Observação >Interpretação>Intervenção.
2) Os papéis das lealdades na sua vida e trabalho.
3) O papel da autoridade e como lidar com ela em um cenário de mudança.
4) Como puxar seus limites, ao reconhecer e vencer suas rotinas de comportamento.
5) Como mudanças exigem de você diferentes papéis e como a busca por coerência pode gerar conflitos na sua competência em desempenhar estes diferente papéis.
6) Como desenvolver a tolerância necessária, desafiando a sua própria zona de conforto para liderar mudanças.
7) Como reconhecer a importância e responsabilidade do seu próprio papel no sistema na jornada até a situação atual e como considerar isso para a liderança de mudanças.
8) Como ser humilde e aprender a ouvir com julgamentos suspensos e conseguir manter em mente ideias contraditórias sobre o mesmo assunto.
9) Como conseguir buy-in de diferentes stakeholders no processo de mudança.
10) Como trazer para seu lado, mesmo que sem convencer de suas ideias, as pessoas que estão resistindo à proposta de mudança.
11) como categorizar e tratar de maneira específica cada perfil de resistência à mudança.
12) Como manter o silêncio para aprender a observar falas, gestos, expressões faciais.
E por aí vai...esse livro é nada menos que espetacular mesmo.