Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)

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CHAPTER 2

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The Theory Behind

the Practice

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INCE 1994, ADAPTIVE leadership has been advanced and

explored in a series of other books in addition to Leadership With-

out Easy Answers and Leadership on the Line.

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The burgeoning litera-

ture in this emerging field includes the work of our colleagues Sharon

Daloz Parks, in Leadership Can Be Taught, and Dean Williams, in Real

Leadership.

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Other books have applied the adaptive leadership frame-

work to the challenges in specific professional contexts. These include

Richard Foster and Sarah Kaplan’s Creative Destruction and Donald L.

Laurie’s The Real Work of Leaders on applications to big businesses;

Gary De Carolis’s A View from the Balcony on systems of care; Stacie

Goffin and Valora Washington’s Ready or N ...