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.

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

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.

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

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

Stay diagnostic even as you take action.

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