Tag Archive: Ron Heifetz

February 23, 2011

It’s an Adaptive Challenge When . . .

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The following is a post that appeared on the blog of the Kansas Leadership Center.  It is inspired by and based on the work of Ron Heifetz and Kristin von Donop of Cambridge Leadership Associates. One of the greatest challenges for leadership is to distinguish between technical and adaptive challenges and to what extent solutions require focus on content or process.

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February 23, 2011

It's an Adaptive Challenge When . . .

adapted

|Photo by Eric__I_E|http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadling/3108258547|

The following is a post that appeared on the blog of the Kansas Leadership Center.  It is inspired by and based on the work of Ron Heifetz and Kristin von Donop of Cambridge Leadership Associates. One of the greatest challenges for leadership is to distinguish between technical and adaptive challenges and to what extent solutions require focus on content or process.

Seven Ways To Know If You Are Facing An Adaptive Challenge: Read More

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January 29, 2010

Leaderships for Our Times

Leadership - Liverpool street station

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In this post I take a look at the overlap and differences between three leadership approaches to which we here at IISC regularly turn in light of our bent towards social change and beliefs about the world in which we live.

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November 3, 2009

Time for Transformation

I am an admiring fan of angel Kyodo williams and a few weeks ago she called my attention to a powerful blog post she wrote, “doing darkness,” it has been on my mind since.  I invite you to take the time to read and contemplate it.  Angel is inviting us to take a close look at the distinction between change and transformation.  She proposes – and I agree – that while change is something that can be undone with a shift in context, transformation is something that can not be undone.

This proposition appeals to my own commitment to the evolutionary paradigm, and to an idea of social movement that demands our conscious engagement with our own evolution.  Angel’s in an excellent articulation, and so I would rather you give your time to reading her piece than to anything else I could say about it.

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