Rethinking for reset and recovery

摘要

In a recent R&R article, my colleague Phil Whitman explored the need for local authority leaders and senior manager to embrace an adaptive leadership style. He argued that the art of this form of leadership was to be neither permanently rooted in operational issues ('on the dance floor'), nor solely focused on the strategic issues ('in the balcony'), but instead to be able to move in and out of challenging situations objectively while maintaining grip on the matter at hand. He argued that leadership and management teams must be able to move back and forth as both 'participant and observer'.