Adaptability: A Leadership Imperative
In today's environment of complex challenges and rapid change, the ability to adapt and remain flexible has become a leadership imperative, not a choice. For leaders, the consequences of not adapting can be severe. By developing your ability to adapt, you can be more effective at leading yourself, your people and your organization.
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What Is Adaptability?
Learning to adapt to change at work is the leadership equivalent of being right-handed but trying to write a letter with your left hand. Your known strengths are being tested, your previously successful approach doesn't apply, and you feel like a beginner again. To get a handle on what it means to be an adaptable leader, CCL's Al Calarco and Joan Gurvis share insights from their new book, Adaptability: Responding Effectively to Change. (more...)
Why Adapt?
Change is constant and inevitable. Leaders all over the world are facing change and complexity-new cultures, new jobs, new markets, new everything. Like it or not, leaders must adapt to succeed. (more...)
How To Develop Adaptability
The ability to adapt can be learned. As with most skills, it takes practice, practice, practice. Here are ways you can practice cognitive, emotional and dispositional flexibility and improve your overall adaptability. (more...)
A Global Spin: Cultural Adaptability
The need to adapt in the face of change is an undeniable aspect of leadership today. For the global manager, adaptability takes on another dimension: culture. (more...)
Strategic Improvisation: Prepare to Adapt
Today's leaders must adapt to change and uncertainty - and, more often than not, they must do so in high-pressure settings when speed is essential. Strategic improvisation is one way effective leaders can approach the need for speed, the stress of uncertainty and the challenge of adapting to change. (more...)
Critical Leadership Challenges Poll Results
In our February 2006 Leading Effectively e-Newsletter, readers were asked to identify the critical leadership challenges facing them and their organizations. Nearly 170 readers responded to the poll. (more...)
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