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BOOK REVIEW: The Practice of Adaptive Leadership (By Ronald Heifetz Et Al, Harvard Business, 2009)
Dealing with change and problem solving–these tasks are at the core of what leader/managers do. But there are two distinctly different types of challenges that precipitate change and bring on problems for managers.

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Dynamic Indifference
There’s a funny leadership story in a book by Eric Yaverbaum titled “Leadership Secrets of The World’s Most Successful CEO’s. From the book – When asked to share his most powerful leadership technique, Bill Bonner founder and president of Agora, a large international publisher, replied “I practice a technique that might be called DYNAMIC INDIFFERENCE. I do not try to lead, probably because I am no good at it. Instead, I merely focus on the work itself. What needs to be done? Who’s got a better idea? Who’s going to do it? No attempt is made to lead. Just the contrary, people are ignored. Finally, they get tired of being ignored and turn to me for leadership. Then I tell them I can’t help them. This forces them to figure out the problem for themselves and resolve it.

The Semantic Web Can Be Your Friend
Alex Iskold, the founder and creator of Adaptive Blue, has a long and helpful post up titled Semantic Web: Difficulties with the Classic Approach. I have a small investment in Adaptive Blue (Union Square Ventures is the lead investor), love what Alex is up to, and relish anything that comes out of his brain.

What is an Adaptive Organization
The characteristics of an Adaptive organization.

What does leadership mean today?
THis article outlines the shift that has taken place in leadership theory and practice today. It describes the six new leadership challenges: vision, empowerment, inspiration,challenge, collaboration, recognition and modelling. It describes effective personal leadership and concludes with a seven step process and work sheet for leadership development.

How to be a high performance leader
The subject of leadership is the quintessential conversation of our generation, particularly at this time of great social change, commercial and political unrest. I believe leadership, [being a leader] to be a character trait, not simply a title you bestow upon a person or entity, without significant reason and evidence over an extended period of time. True 'leadership' is the ability to inspire action through ones own actions. This feat is not as easy to achieve as the definition suggests. Easy in theory - but ever challenging in practice.

Business Coaching for Effective Leadship
While leadership is easy to explain, it’s not so easy to practice. Leadership is about behaviour first, skills second. Good leaders are followed chiefly because people trust and respect them. Leadership differs to management, which relies more on planning, organisational and communications skills.

Is "leadership" dead?
"Leadership" now seems to be a catch-all term (a bit like "communication"). That being the case, has the time now come when we should be considering whether the term "leadership" has lost its impact and whether we need to radically rethink the whole concept by moving out of all the traditional concepts like "servant leadership", "situational leadership", “contingency leadership”, “leadership habits” etc that are based on attitudes and behaviours?

Monkey Business: Fairness in the Workplace
Fairness is often a question of perception, so while we may do our best to practice fairness, others may not always view us as fair. Of all the leadership qualities, this is perhaps one of the hardest to practice on a consistent basis. This article provides seven practical tips to help you be fair in the workplace.

Effects-Based Thinking Part III
In Part I of this series, the concept that everything exists within a system from the perspective of complexity was introduced. In Part II, a three-tiered framework of effects-based thinking (EBT) and planning critical to understanding change in organizations, markets and communities was discussed. In this final installment, discover how effects are planned within complex systems and how adaptive leadership propels those effects.

Classic example of thought jacking
Thought jacking can be a very successful tool to elevate your thought leadership position or to create a thought leadership platform for your brand. Here are two examples showing how Malcolm Gladwell has used this approach for his position on the tipping point as well as deliberate practice or the 10,000 hour principle.

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