Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)

10 Introduction: Purpose and Possibility

The practices provided in this book are concrete steps you can take

to move a change initiative forward. However, they are best understood

as vehicles for disciplined experiments. We think of adaptive leader-

ship as an art, not a science, an art that requires an experimental mind-

set. Each practice presented in this book has been successful alone or

in combination with others, but none is foolproof. Each depends to

some degree on the situation in which you use it. We include them all

here because so much of adaptive leadership work is iterative: you

try something, see how it goes, learn from what happened, and then

try something else. You tailor your interventions to the individuals

involved and to the unique ...