Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.

Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.

The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.

Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.

Stay diagnostic even as you take action.

Values are shaped and refined by rubbing against real problems, and people interpret their problems according to the values they hold.

Exercising leadership is an expression of your aliveness... But when you cover yourself up, you risk losing something as well. In the struggle to save yourself, you can give up too many of those qualities that are the essence of being alive, like innocence, curiosity, and compassion.