Leading the Change You Want To See: THE PRACTICE OF ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP (Heifetz, Grashow & Linsky) Offers An Authoritative and Practical Field Guide for Change Leadership

Often resistant to change, schools are also complex organizations, with dynamics that make it hard to embrace innovation. But creating the conditions that will allow schools to evolve and adapt — with a focus on improving learning — is hard to achieve with top-down managerial leadership, requiring skilled adaptive leadership instead. But what is adaptive leadership — beyond a fuzzy theory? And how can leaders translate this kind of leadership into effective organizational change without strong top-down governance? Great questions like these are addressed head on in the book The Practice of Adaptive Leadership ((Heifetz, Grashow & Linsky. Published in well over a decade ago, the book provides a uniquely authoritative, accessible, and highly pragramatic expose and field guide for transforming professional culture in complex organizations, like K12 schools and school districts.