Embracing Adaptive Work

When I was a kid my Dad used to tell me, "you need the right tool for the right job."  it's not going to work if you try to use a hammer to tighten a bolt or screw. In a previous episode we explored how leaders face two different kinds of problems in their organizations: technical and adaptive. Where leaders experience frustration is when they take a set of tools that works great with one type of challenge, and try to apply it to the other. In this podcast we dive deeper in the adaptive world, and explore six tools that help leaders take on adaptive challenges. This work is hard, and sometimes it's counterintuitive. And yet embracing adaptive work is the toll leaders have to pay to get on the road to bring their companies to the next level.