Five Reasons to Invest in Leadership Development

Leadership Training

“Bad leaders pose the biggest risk to companies” – Warren Buffet, WSJ   Amidst bank failures, start-ups collapsing, and the market teetering on the edge of uncertainty, one would think the emphasis on leadership would be greater than ever before. Unfortunately,...

How Do You Navigate Through the Dark? A Practice in Leadership

Adaptive Leadership, Problem Solving

A colleague came into the office recently with a black eye. Sheepishly, she explained the power had gone out when she was in the garage of her new home. She stumbled around in the dark and collided with boxes – Ouch! While not surprising to a visually impaired person,...

Ten Signs You’re Working on an Adaptive Problem

Adaptive Leadership

In nearly 20 years of business, with over 1,000 teams and organizations, working across many sectors and industries we find that the most common cause of failure in leadership comes from treating adaptive challenges as if they were technical problems – a misdiagnosis...

How to Lead Change – An Experimental Approach

Adaptive Leadership, Leadership Training

Change is hard for leaders, teams, and organizations. How we position the need for change and its execution is critical. In the practice of adaptive leadership, we refer to these first steps as intervention and experimentation – tests we run to facilitate learning...

Management vs. Leadership

Adaptive Leadership, Leadership Training

Management or leadership? Are they the same? Is one “better” than the other? And when is each required? While effective management and leadership are tools that support progress in organizational life, their application depends on need and context. Like...