The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World (Click for more information and to purchase from Amazon)
Abbrev. Description: 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…
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