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

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

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

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

Your inspiration taps hidden reserves of promise that sustain people through times that induce despair. You enable people to envision a future that sustains the best from their past while also holding out new possibilities.

And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own.