Most think leadership is a position. (It’s not.) Most think leading is meant for the few. (Wrong again.) When people say, “Let’s ask leadership about this,” they usually mean let’s ask the people in charge. When they say, “The company has a new leader,” they mean...
Tough challenges are all around us. They are in our professional lives, in our communities, and in our families. They polarize and perplex us. They can seem unsolvable, unreachable, and beyond our ability to grasp what needs to be done. Our toughest challenges baffle...
Leadership is creating the conditions for the right people to step up, contribute and make progress on our toughest challenges. It’s finding ways for people who see the world from different perspectives to navigate those differences and discover new ways forward...
Making progress on our toughest challenges usually involves dealing with uncomfortable things like loss, competing values and conflict about the right way forward. At KLC, we use the word heat as shorthand for those less-than-comfortable characteristics of adaptive...
Diagnosis as an act of leadership doesn’t stop with exploring tough interpretations. After you’ve explored, it comes time to test those interpretations to discover which will be most useful in determining next steps. You’ll want to find out if any of the multiple...