CHAPTER 12

Build an AdaptiveCulture

FOSTERING AN ADAPTIVE culture will enable your organization or community to meet an ongoing series of adaptive challenges into the future, a future that is almost guaranteed in our day to keep pitching new challenges toward us. Although building adaptive capacity is a medium- and long-term goal, it can only happen by moving on it today and the next. Indeed, every challenge you currently face is another opportunity to both work the immediate problem and institute ways of operating that can become norms for taking on whatever comes next.

In chapter 7, we discussed five distinguishing characteristics of an adaptive culture, based on our experience working with all types of organizations from every corner of ...

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