The Practice of Adaptive Leadership

CHAPTER 2

The Theory Behindthe Practice

SINCE 1994, ADAPTIVE leadership has been advanced and explored in a series of other books in addition to Leadership Without Easy Answers and Leadership on the Line. ¹ The burgeoning literature in this emerging field includes the work of our colleagues Sharon Daloz Parks, in Leadership Can Be Taught, and Dean Williams, in Real Leadership. ² Other books have applied the adaptive leadership framework 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 ...