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The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World Kindle Edition

by Ronald A. Heifetz (Author), Marty Linsky (Author), Alexander Grashow (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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The guide to approaching leadership in a rapidly changing world.

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 Linsky highlighted the individual and organizational dangers of leading through deep change in business, politics, and community life. Now, Heifetz, Linsky, and coauthor Alexander Grashow are taking the next step: The Practice of Adaptive Leadership is a hands-on, practical guide containing stories, tools, diagrams, cases, and worksheets to help you develop your skills as an adaptive leader, able to take people outside their comfort zones and assess and address the toughest challenges.

The authors have decades of experience helping people and organizations create cultures of adaptive leadership. In today's rapidly changing world, The Practice of Adaptive Leadership can be your handbook to meeting the demands of leadership in the midst of complexity.

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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.

About the Author

Ronald 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.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvard Business Review Press; 1st edition (18 May 2009)
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Louise Thomson
5.0 out of 5 stars The how to manual of exercising leadership
Reviewed in Australia on 26 August 2016
A very informative and practical manual on the exercise of leadership. It contains multiple exercises of reflection and practical exercises to apply the tools and techniques explored in the book. Interestingly, many other books I have previously read have been cross referenced. I believe you are in good hands reading this one.
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Farzad Rahnama
5.0 out of 5 stars Super libro para lo quienes que se gestionando negocios
Reviewed in Spain on 30 January 2021
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Una libro muy bien, muy recomendable!!
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cesar carneiro penna
5.0 out of 5 stars O melhor livro de gestão de mudanças que já tive a sorte de ler
Reviewed in Brazil on 30 November 2017
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Esta obra não trata apenas de gestão de mudanças, na verdade ela é especificamente focada na Liderança para gestão de mudanças. O que aparenta ser um detalhe, mas faz toda diferença.

Os autores constroem um modelo que primeiro delineia o tipo de situação que pode ser considerado um "problema adaptativo", depois seguem para ensinar como entender o sistema, depois ensinam como mobilizar o sistema e finalizam com uma proposta de uma brilhante jornada de autoconhecimento.

Você encontrará uma lista abrangente de exercícios para desenvolvimento das competências essenciais a liderança. Tudo aqui passa uma impressão de maturidade, de cuidado e de eficiência. São conteúdos extraordinários que, mesmo tendo lido diversos livros de negócios, me surpreenderam várias vezes. Li com calma porque vale a pena refletir sobre tudo que é apresentado aqui, como por exemplo:

1) O processo iterativo para a liderança de mudanças que segue os três passos: Observação >Interpretação>Intervenção.
2) Os papéis das lealdades na sua vida e trabalho.
3) O papel da autoridade e como lidar com ela em um cenário de mudança.
4) Como puxar seus limites, ao reconhecer e vencer suas rotinas de comportamento.
5) Como mudanças exigem de você diferentes papéis e como a busca por coerência pode gerar conflitos na sua competência em desempenhar estes diferente papéis.
6) Como desenvolver a tolerância necessária, desafiando a sua própria zona de conforto para liderar mudanças.
7) Como reconhecer a importância e responsabilidade do seu próprio papel no sistema na jornada até a situação atual e como considerar isso para a liderança de mudanças.
8) Como ser humilde e aprender a ouvir com julgamentos suspensos e conseguir manter em mente ideias contraditórias sobre o mesmo assunto.
9) Como conseguir buy-in de diferentes stakeholders no processo de mudança.
10) Como trazer para seu lado, mesmo que sem convencer de suas ideias, as pessoas que estão resistindo à proposta de mudança.
11) como categorizar e tratar de maneira específica cada perfil de resistência à mudança.
12) Como manter o silêncio para aprender a observar falas, gestos, expressões faciais.

E por aí vai...esse livro é nada menos que espetacular mesmo.
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Jordan S Polson
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best
Reviewed in Canada on 9 August 2017
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Outstanding! Great practical techniques along with the theory. I've used concepts in this book for the past 3 years and my staff are better for it. For existing leaders that are looking to increase their capacity, this is where you can start. I hand out copies all the time to leaders that are in growth mode and want to lead different or just better.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in India on 22 December 2016
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A. K. Wright
5.0 out of 5 stars A book that will change the way you lead
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 December 2015
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This is an amazing book. Having been a leader in the public sector for many years. I wished I could have read this before I took my first big job. It provides both the insight into what the task of leadership really involved and practical tools to help you along the way. If you are leading anything, even if it's not peopl, it will help you lead it better. The most useful concepts for me were the notion that leading adaptive change involves loss for those you are leading and the need to be much more respectful of that, and the idea that you regularly need to get up on the balcony to look down on the dance floor and see how your dancing is affecting others and consider how you might lead the dance differently.
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