The Practice of Adaptive Leadership

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book could not have been written without the generosity of our clients, program participants, students, and friends in sharing their challenges, stories, and learning with us over the past quarter century, particularly during the years after the publication of Leadership Without Easy Answers and Leadership on the Line and the formation of Cambridge Leadership Associates (CLA). This book is theirs as much as it is ours.

As we have noted in the text, this book has many intellectual and practitioner progenitors. These ideas and tools have lineage that goes back centuries, as well as a distinctly twentieth-century context. Starting more than thirty years ago, Riley Sinder, collaborating with Ron Heifetz, created much of the ...