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Leading in Challenging Times: New Skills for Managers ICMA Annual Conference September 23, 2013 Marty Linsky Co-founder and Principal www.cambridge-leadership.com The New Normal? Uncertain future Inadequate information Change as

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Leading in Challenging Times: New Skills for Managers

ICMA Annual Conference September 23, 2013 Marty Linsky

Co-founder and Principal

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The New Normal?

  • Uncertain future
  • Inadequate information
  • Change as a constant

How do you prepare? What skills are necessary?

  • Capacity to meet new realities
  • Courage to take responsibility for inventing the

future

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The Critical Choice:

Hunker Down Or Adapt?

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Adaptive Leadership™

THE FIRST CLASSIC ERROR

Treating Adaptive Challenges as if they were Technical Problems

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Technical and Adaptive

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Work Avoidance and Disequilibrium

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Essential and Expendable

Management is the efficient oversight of the “Essential” Leadership is the experimental space where the expendable is abandoned and innovation occurs.

Determining what practices are core to the future and what are

  • bstacles to the future

Testing new practices Integrating the new practices

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THE SECOND CLASSIC ERROR

The Leap To Action

Adaptive Leadership

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OII Observe - Get on the Balcony Interpret – Look for the Systemic and Adaptive Only then, Intervene – Customize and Turn Up the Heat

New Leadership Strategy

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Managers’ Personal Challenge

What parts of your current repertoire do you need to retain – Which skills, values, beliefs? What parts of your repertoire do they need to give up to thrive in the current reality?

Determining what practices are core to the future and what are

  • bstacles to the future

Testing new practices and behaviors Integrating the new practices into a new way of leading

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Reframing–Problem Interpretations Interpretation Possibilities Individual Systemic Technical Adaptive Benign Conflictual

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Diagnosing Acting System

− Thinking Systemically − Distinguishing Technical From Adaptive Challenges − Thinking Politically − Using Interpretations − Acting Politically − Orchestrating Conflict

Self

− Knowing Your Defaults − Knowing Your Role in the System − Knowing Your Purpose − Willing to Exceed Your Authority − Owning Your Piece of the Mess − Staying in the Game and Staying Alive

Set of Behaviors

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Execute and Adapt