Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.
The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template.
I think that notion of leadership is bankrupt.
Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines.
Worry not that your child listens to you; worry most that they watch you.
What people resist is not change per se, but loss.