This informative and practical book helps leaders develop adaptive leadership mindsets and skills to address the myriad intersecting challenges shaping today’s workplace. Through the Flux 5 framework, organizational culture and systems experts Sharon Ravitch and Liza Herzog help leaders, teams, and organizations create the organizational conditions to drive and enact adaptive change. At a time of unprecedented workplace flux, leader roles are constantly being redefined, requiring more finely attuned leader mindsets, frames for leadership, and skillsets for moving the dial on individual and organizational sense-making for cultural and institutional excellence. Based on five mindsets – Inquiry Mindset, Humanizing Mindset, Systems Mindset, Entrepreneurial Mindset, and Equity Mindset – the Flux 5 framework teaches leaders to drive adaptive change as a tool of professional and organizational development. Using embedded leader learning activations and organizational practices, the book guides leaders to develop each mindset as they read. The book encourages leaders (and their organizations in diffusion effect) to cultivate a visionary and resonant leadership approach at the intersection of crisis leadership, professional and human development, systems thinking, entrepreneurial leadership, and organizational equity frameworks. Succinct, accessible, pragmatic, and inspiring, this useful guide will grab the interest of leaders, teams, and organizations across sectors, organizational types, and business contexts, and engage professors, students, and practitioners of leadership, management, organizational psychology, and organizational development.

In times of constant change, adaptive leadership is critical. This Harvard Business Review collection brings together the seminal ideas on how to adapt and thrive in challenging environments, from leading thinkers on the topic—most notably Ronald A. Heifetz of the Harvard Kennedy School and Cambridge Leadership Associates. The Heifetz Collection includes two classic books: Leadership on the Line, by Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky, and The Practice of Adaptive Leadership, by Heifetz, Linsky, and Alexander Grashow. Also included is the popular Harvard Business Review article, “Leadership in a (Permanent) Crisis,” written by all three authors. Available together for the first time, this collection includes full digital editions of each work. Adaptive leadership is a practical framework for dealing with today’s mix of urgency, high stakes, and uncertainty. It has been used by individuals, organizations, businesses, and governments worldwide. In a world of challenging environments, adaptive leadership serves as a guide to distinguishing the essential from the expendable, beginning the meaningful process of adaption, and changing the status quo. Ronald A. 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. Alexander Grashow is a Senior Advisor to CLA, having previously held the position of CEO.

Unlock your potential and finally move forward. A recent study showed that when doctors tell heart patients they will die if they don't change their habits, only one in seven will be able to follow through successfully. Desire and motivation aren't enough: even when it's literally a matter of life or death, the ability to change remains maddeningly elusive. Given that the status quo is so potent, how can we change ourselves and our organizations? In Immunity to Change, authors Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey show how our individual beliefs--along with the collective mind-sets in our organizations--combine to create a natural but powerful immunity to change. By revealing how this mechanism holds us back, Kegan and Lahey give us the keys to unlock our potential and finally move forward. And by pinpointing and uprooting our own immunities to change, we can bring our organizations forward with us. This persuasive and practical book, filled with hands-on diagnostics and compelling case studies, delivers the tools you need to overcome the forces of inertia and transform your life and your work.

In an era defined by unrelenting change and technological upheaval, the hallmark of effective leadership is no longer measured by your skill set alone – it is increasingly defined by your mindset. The Leadership Mindset – Be R.E.M.A.R.K.A.B.L.E. carefully outlines the mental shifts required to lead with vision, empathy, and resilience in the 21st century. From the corporate boardroom to the dynamic start-up environment, the guidance outlined in these pages is universal. Karen Ferris, renowned for her leadership and organizational change expertise, captures the essence of transformative leadership within the R.E.M.A.R.K.A.B.L.E. acronym. Each letter is a stepping stone for building an indomitable leadership persona. Jam-packed with research, case studies, and real-life examples, this book will help you transcend traditional leadership paradigms and embrace the learning mindset crucial for navigating the complexities of our time. Endorsed by industry experts as a transformative blueprint for aspirational leadership, this book is a call to action. Embrace the R.E.M.A.R.K.A.B.L.E. mindset and lead the charge in a world hungry for authentic, influential, and visionary leaders. Just as the world evolves, so must you. Step into the journey of becoming R.E.M.A.R.K.A.B.L.E.

A hands-on, practical guide, "Practice of Adaptive Leadership" contains stories, tools, diagrams, cases, and worksheets to help managers develop their skills as leaders who are able to take people outside their comfort zones and address the toughest challenges.

Don’t just survive adversity: turn it to your advantage To succeed as a high-performing leader today, you need to know how to navigate extreme change and uncertainty. Toolkit for Turbulence unpacks the mindset and methods used by top leaders and teams to assess, adapt, and respond to unforeseen challenges and ambiguity. With this book, you’ll learn how to seize the unexpected as an opportunity to develop your leadership capabilities and build a more adaptive team. From visual models to guided frameworks, Toolkit for Turbulence shares easy-to-implement core tools that you can use to construct your own leadership solutions — solutions that suit the unique needs of your team, your enterprise, and your community. Authors Graham Winter and Martin Bean CBE share timely advice and practical strategies, together with compelling, real-world stories from prominent executive leaders across a variety of industries. In Toolkit for Turbulence, you’ll discover how top leaders succeed even in times of crisis. Backed by performance psychology, the tools in this book will show you how to build the flexibility and resilience your team needs to thrive in a volatile, unpredictable world. In Toolkit for Turbulence, you’ll learn how to: Be an advantage leader: a leader who welcomes disruption, grasps opportunities to adapt, and builds teams and cultures capable of turning adversity into advantage Use learning loops and training canvases to guide your team in responding effectively and continuously to challenges Recognise and embrace nonlinear challenges, which require leaders and teams to adopt new ways of thinking and working Be responsive and proactive (rather than reactive and defensive) and recalibrate when things don’t go as expected Develop a resilient, adaptive leadership mindset, training your mind and transforming the way you think and behave With Toolkit for Turbulence, executives and leaders at all levels can build their strategies for weathering today’s only certainty: uncertainty. Its crucial insights into how to pivot dynamically and successfully will prepare you to navigate the unexpected with your organisation and your team — every day, in real life and real time.

Leadership during a challenging time or crisis requires more than just one leader making decisions; it requires inclusive yet focused leadership that can lead others to find solutions that may exist. But how can leadership prepare for this leadership challenge? And, when a challenge occurs, how does leadership respond to find the best solutions? This skill will provide a framework for leaders to best prepare for and respond to a challenging time or crisis and suggest ways to create leadership solutions through an inclusive, adaptive leadership process. In our ever-evolving world today, the amount and speed of information create greater leadership challenges. These challenges are best met with a group effort--leaders cannot always find the needed solution through their own experiences and abilities. The adaptive leadership process focuses on getting others involved to find solutions to challenges and problems. This process of getting others involved creates a sense of ownership of the challenge and, as the Chinese philosopher Lau Tzu stated, "A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves." The sense of doing it themselves is at the heart of the adaptive leadership process and is critical for finding solutions that do not exist, especially during challenging times or when a crisis occurs. The leadership process during difficult times or crises is very similar to that during normal times: getting others to do what you want them to do and having them want to do it. General and President Dwight Eisenhower stated, "Now I think, speaking roughly, by leadership we mean the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it, not because your position of power can compel him to do it, or your position of authority" (Remarks at the Annual Conference of the Society for Personnel Administration, 5/12/54). The key is to know who you are leading and understand what creates that feeling inside others, the desire to do what you want them to do (intrinsic motivation), especially during a challenging time or crisis. This skill will use two examples of leadership during a challenging/crisis time; one to illustrate leadership in a large organization and context and a second on a smaller scale. Since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 (9/11), the United States Army has been engaged in a Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) that has brought about significant changes in the United States Army during very challenging times. These changes have evolved as the United States Army has faced challenges from enemies that are significantly different from previous threats to United States national security. Ultimately, the United States military has had to modify its structure, doctrine, training, and equipment--all while fighting an ever-evolving enemy located both within its borders and throughout various global geographic locations (Kretchik, 2011). The US Army's leadership philosophy has also changed during the GWOT. The hierarchal leadership philosophy before 9/11 was not possible when fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan due to the number of isolated outposts needed throughout the region. Young soldiers were also responsible for maintaining order over large groups of civilians, often groups of several thousand, who had a different culture to those in the United States. These challenges required United States Army leaders to engage in the adaptive leadership process to innovate and adapt quickly while fighting, despite not knowing the correct solutions. On a smaller scale, many small businesses had to adapt to an entirely new environment due to the COVID pandemic. Management operations, much greater reliance on technology, delivery techniques, and many other aspects had to change rapidly for many small businesses to survive. Leadership also had to adapt as in-person, personal contact was not possible, and the use of other technologies created a form of virtual leadership. This module will follow Anya, a first-generation Russian immigrant, who owned a restaurant in a mid-western city that had to significantly change the way she operated her restaurant to keep the business alive. This skill will begin with understanding what and how to lead during a challenging time or crisis. We will then go on to explore how to find solutions that do not presently exist using Heifetz and Laurie's adaptive leadership model and Kotter's leading change model. Last, the module will suggest ways to create or increase the intrinsic motivation within those you lead.