Conclusion: Be a disruptor or be disrupted. You choose.
A fascinating insight from simulations in the Intelligence Services, is how much easier it is to disrupt than it is to defend against disruption. At its best, adaptive leadership is about always looking to be on the front foot. We do this by building our organisations skills and processes to enable us to adapt early and often.
Raise awareness in your team about the importance of the skills of adaptive leadership, and the common traps. Exploring insights from when you have been at your best in adapting, and what traps you have fallen into.
If you’re keen to make this a core strength of your organization or team, here are some recommended next steps.
Identify & prioritize your most important adaptive challenges: Create space for the team to ‘stand on the balcony’, identify and prioritize current adaptive challenges you need to respond to.
Empower a small group of people to work on each challenge: Bring together a good mix of people to diagnose the issue and figure out what ideas to test.
Build your organisations skills in debriefing to support a culture of learning and continuous improvement at all levels.
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Adaptive Leadership : Building your capacity to thrive in a disruptive environment
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