{"product_id":"the-fundamentals-of-adaptive-practice-9798993576992","title":"The Fundamentals of Adaptive Practice","description":"\u003cp\u003eThankfully, most organizations do well at managing what they know how to do. The trouble is that the challenges defining this century - climate, healthcare, AI, income inequality, misinformation, unaffordable housing, and more - are \"we don't know how\" problems that lie beyond the reach of good management.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Fundamentals of Adaptive Practice\u003c\/em\u003e lays out the rigorous, proven principles, disciplines, and methods for taking on exactly those challenges. Drawing on the authors' decades of experience working with leaders across more than seventy industries and fields in the private, non-profit, and governmental sectors, this book offers both the understanding and the practical tools needed to move forward when the path isn't clear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is organized around seven core adaptive practices: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFraming challenges with the right questions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUsing team discipline to drive shared performance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCollaborating appreciatively across differences\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKeeping focus on outcomes, not process\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuilding the \"we\" that figures out the how\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConverting assumptions into real knowledge through design\/do cycles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShaping and pursuing a \"story of we\" that invites participation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach chapter draws on real case examples from manufacturing, journalism, urban development, education, and more, alongside exercises designed to be used with your team.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdaptive practice is not a critique of management. It is the necessary and essential companion to it. When people in organizations and purpose networks have the courage to say \"we're not really sure we know how to do this,\" they take the first step on a journey that leads to new knowhow - and eventually back to the stable ground where traditional management can work again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth\/and. Not either\/or. Today, the future of people and the planet depends on how well organizations and purpose networks learn to use both. This book shows the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Credible Ink\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798993576992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d","brand":"Jo'anne Langham,Edward Morrison,Douglas K. Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934425804981,"sku":"9798993576992","price":21.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-fundamentals-of-adaptive-practice-9798993576992","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}