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

But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict

If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.

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.

Progress on problems is the measure of leadership; leaders mobilize people to face problems, and communities make progress on problems because leaders challenge them and help them to do so.

Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines.

I think that notion of leadership is bankrupt.