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Adaptive Action: Leveraging Uncertainty in Your Organization

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Description for Adaptive Action: Leveraging Uncertainty in Your Organization Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: KJMD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 407. Weight in Grams: 363.

Rooted in the study of chaos and complexity, Adaptive Action introduces a simple, common sense process that will guide you and your organization into reflective action.

This elegant method prompts readers to engage with three deceptively simple questions: What? So what? Now what? The first leads to careful observation. The second invites you to thoughtfully consider options and implications. The third ignites effective action. Together, these questions and the tools that support them produce a dynamic and creative dance with uncertainty. The road-tested steps of adaptive action can be used to devise solutions and improve performance across multiple challenges, and ... Read more

In addition to laying out the adaptive action framework and clear protocols to support it, Glenda H. Eoyang and Royce J. Holladay introduce best practices from exemplary professionals who have used adaptive action to meet personal, professional, and political challenges in leadership, consulting, Alzheimer's treatment, evaluation, education reform, political advocacy, and cultural engagement—readying readers to employ this new toolkit to meet their own goals with a sense of ingenuity and flexibility.

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Product Details

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804787116
SKU
V9780804787116
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Ref
99-50

About Glenda H. Eoyang
Glenda H. Eoyang is the founding Executive Director of the Human Systems Dynamics Institute and author of Facilitating Organization Change: Lessons from Complexity Science. Royce J. Holladay is the Director of the Network for the Human Systems Dynamics Institute.

Reviews for Adaptive Action: Leveraging Uncertainty in Your Organization
"Adaptive Action offers new ways to think about the limitations in traditional planning: it enables you to name and explore the uncertainty in your systems; it promotes shorter cycles of action and feedback, enabling you to respond to unexpected events and take corrective action more quickly."—Leadership Excellence "Adaptive Action does an excellent job of building on the theories and methods ... Read more

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