Ch1 - identify the work to be done Leadership - The work to be done - the practice of mobilizing people to meet tough challenges - Building something does
Problem definition and problem solution
Identify a leadership challenge that you’ve experienced and respond to the prompts
Adaptive Challenges requires change - people love change, they fear loss - what to conserve, what to give up, and what innovations
Leadership is the practice of adaptive work - creating with people new capacity to meet the challenges they face to thrive in our changing and challenging world
Adaptive problems, you cannot take the problem off people’s shoulders - with adaptive problems, the people themselves are part of the problem
The best they can do is to frame up the right questions, identify the key realities that need to be addressed, and then challenge people to take responsibility for tacking those problems
Leadership begins with a whole diagnostic task - how do we distinguish the parts of the challenge that are technical from the parts that are adaptive + what existing capacities are relevant? - break the adaptive challenge component into parts + look for where change - competent - is happening
Ch2 - lead with, beyond, and without authority