Adaptive Leadership Architecture

1. Adaptive Leadership Architecture

2. Technical and Adaptive Work

3. Properties of Adaptive Leadership • The challenge consists of a gap between aspirations and reality demanding responses outside the repertoire • Adaptive work to narrow that gap requires difficult learning • The learning involves distinguishing what’s precious and essential from what’s expendable, which involves loss

4. Properties of Adaptive Leadership • The losses often involve learning to refashion loyalties and develop new competencies • Adaptive work is value-laden; conservative as well as progressive • The people with the problem are the problem, and they are the solution • Problem-solving responsibility shifts to the stakeholders

5. Properties of Adaptive Leadership • Adaptive work requires a longer time frame than technical work • Adaptive work is experimental • Adaptive Challenges generate disequilibrium and avoidance

6. Adaptive Change is About Loss • Time • Resources • Self Reliance • Job • Life Loss of: • Identity • Competence • Comfort • Security • Reputation

7. LIMIT OF TOLERANCE DISEQUILIBRIUM THRESHOLD OF LEARNING WORK AVOIDANCE ADAPTIVE CHALLENGE TECHNICAL PROBLEM TIME

8. Getting on the Balcony • Practices • Distinguish Technical from Adaptive Challenges • Find Out Where People Are At • Listen to the Song Beneath the Words • Read the Authority Figure for Clues

9. Thinking and Acting Politically • Find Partners • Keep the Opposition Close • Accept Responsibility for Your Piece of the Mess • Acknowledge Casualties • Embrace Troublemakers(positive deviants) • Track Authorities

10. Orchestrate Conflict • Practices • Create a Holding Environment • Control the Temperature • Pace the Work • Show Them the Future • Connect to Purpose