The Practice of Adaptive Leadership, by Ronald A. Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, and Marty Linsky

When your organization is facing changing conditions or never-before-seen challenges, the only way to survive is to adapt. But for leaders to successfully guide their organization through the process, they need to themselves adopt a new mindset. In The Practice of Adaptive Leadership, Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, and Marty Linsky offer practical strategies to help leaders navigate these kinds of complex challenges—challenges that require innovation, experimentation, and a departure from techniques you’ve grown accustomed to.

In this guide, we’ll look at how Heifetz, Grashow, and Linsky define adaptive challenges as well as their advice for diagnosing them in the context of your organization’s needs. We’ll also discuss some of their strategies for guiding your organization through these kinds of challenges. Along the way, we’ll compare their ideas to those from other experts on leadership, business strategy, and psychology, including Simon Sinek, Daniel Kahneman, and Angela Duckworth.