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An "adaptive challenge" should have enough "heat" to motivate, mobilise and engage a leader, but not so much it overwhelms them, according to a leadership expert.
Leaders in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) work environment often face challenges that have no single solution, says UNSW Academy of Adaptive Leadership director, professor Catherine Althaus.
Therefore, these "adaptive challenges" are causing many organisations to add adaptive leadership to their repertoire of leadership responses.
Rather than seeing leadership as "a position or a person", as traditional leadership theories do, the adaptive approach "democratises" leadership, Althaus says. "Everyone is implicated and local knowledge, local behaviour change, local responses, become absolutely critical...
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