New Research Briefing: How to develop and lead an adaptable organisation

If you are in leadership, leadership development, organisational development or consultancy you are going to want to see this…

New research briefing: How to lead and develop an adaptable organisation

This week we sent our members a brand new research briefing about how to lead and develop an adaptable organisation. This briefing summarised an important new research paper that is a true game changer for anyone involved in leadership, organisational development or consultancy. This paper changes the way we think about creating a flexible and adaptable organisation.

Developing and leading an organisation that can lead and respond to a rapidly changing and often ambiguous environment is a primary challenge for leaders these days. This requires leaders who know how to develop and lead an adaptable organisation. A new study by researchers from the United States conducted an integrative literary review (looking at previous research across a number of disciplines and bringing them together) and an analysis of current studies to see what happens and what lessons exist for developing a framework for adaptive leadership.

The first point researchers make is that leadership aimed at developing and leading an adaptable organisation is different from traditional forms of leadership and different from leading change. Adaptive leadership focuses on how to situate an organisation and its people to become adaptive in rapidly changing, dynamic, complex and uncertain environments. The intention of developing flexibility, agility and adaptation capability requires different thinking and skills from those required for day-to-day organisational leadership and even leadership of organisational change, although there are overlaps.

This research study introduces the key idea of the ‘adaptive space’ which is a really useful concept for anyone trying to develop an adaptable organisation or business.

You can obtain this research briefing here

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