Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)

38 Introduction: Purpose and Possibility

learning new competencies, with your brain training your body to

become proficient at new techniques of diagnosis and action.

You might think about this idea as the convergence of multiple intel-

ligences (intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and physical) or the collabo-

ration among physical centers (mind, heart, and body). But the central

notion is the same. Your whole self constitutes a resource for exercising

leadership.

One distinctive aspect of leading adaptive change is that you must

connect with the values, beliefs, and anxieties of the people you are try-

ing to move. Being present in that way is tough to do unless your heart

is part of the mix as well. Acts of leadership not only require access to

all ...