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Adaptive leadership

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In management & leadership, adaptive leadership means: An approach that mobilises people to address challenges requiring changes in their habits, assumptions or capabilities.

In Turkish: uyarlanabilir liderlik

How it is used

Distinguish adaptive challenges from technical problems that existing expertise can resolve.

Example sentences

  1. Adaptive leadership helped the partners question their working habits rather than simply buy new software.

    The challenge requires people to change how they work, beyond a technical fix.

  2. The director practised adaptive leadership by involving staff in experiments with unfamiliar service models.

    People participate in learning a response when an established answer is unavailable.

Common collocations

  • practise adaptive leadership
  • adaptive leadership challenge
  • change managementThe planned way an organisation prepares, supports and guides people through a major change, such as a new system or a merger, so that the change is accepted and lasts.
  • leadership styleThe typical way a person leads others, including how they make decisions, give instructions, share information and involve their team.

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