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

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.

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

Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.

Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines.

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