Adaptive Leadership and the Need for Reflection by Lindley Edwards
28-Jul-2010
AFG Venture Group CEO Lindley Edwards has written an article on leadership for Total Executive, an excerpt of which is below:

I have been reflecting that one of our often innate and immediate leadership responses in a time of crisis or uncertainty or chaos is to try to concentrate power rather than devolve it. This is because our natural human response is to try to control and command the situation when we are dealing with complexity, a high degree of uncertainty and challenging environments. What we should be doing instead is having high visibility, devolving issues to the experts in our team and making ourselves the ‘glue’ that holds it all together that allows the best choices and decisions to be made.

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