topic: [[Leading]] people: #people/jennyrudolph created: 2025-05-09 #note/idea *Just like leadership structure needs to be flexible to the moment, so does leadership style.* From Jenny's notes: Book: Leadership Without Answers _**1. Identify the adaptive challenge.** Diagnose the situation in light of the values at stake, and unbundle the issues that come with it_ _**2. Keep the level of distress within a tolerable range for doing adaptive work**. To use the pressure cooker analogy, keep the pressure up without blowing up the vessel._ _**3. Focus attention on ripening issues and not on stress-reducing distractions**. Identify which issues can currently engage attention; and while directing attention to them, counteract work avoidance mechanism like denial, scapegoating, externalizing the enemy, pretending the problem is technical, or attacking individuals rather than issues._ _**4. Give the work back to people, but at a rate they can stand**. Place and develop responsibility by putting the pressure on the people with the problem._ _**5. Protect voices of leadership without authority**. Give cover to those who raise hard questions and generate distress — people who point to the internal contradictions of the society. These individuals will often have latitude to provoke rethinking that authorities do not have._ ## Source: https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Without-Answers-Ronald-Heifetz/dp/0674518586