Why adaptive leadership matters

If you have a heart attack and the doctor saves you, but you don’t give up smoking and eating bacon for breakfast every day, you’re at risk for another heart attack soon. 

Likewise, if your company was hit hard by the pandemic, but you didn’t take the opportunity to evaluate your leadership strategy for the long-term, you’re still just as vulnerable.

This is a metaphor I borrowed from Harvard Business Review, which argues that times like right now call for a particular kind of leadership: adaptive leadership.

That means using all the discord of the present time to make changes that will ensure a stronger, more durable future for your organization. It also means embracing the discomfort of not knowing what might happen in the future, and being ready for anything. 

For a lot of the clients I work with in my role as Founding Partner, these are incredibly uncertain times. And with that comes the promise of innovation.