Adaptive Action: Leveraging Uncertainty in your Organisation

Author(s)
Eoyang, G. and Holladay, R.
Pages
263pp
Date published
08 Mar 2013
Publisher
Stanford Business Books
Type
Books
Keywords
Assessment & Analysis, System-wide performance

ooted in the study of chaos and complexity, Adaptive Action introduces a simple, common sense process that will guide you and your organization into reflective action. This elegant method prompts readers to engage with three deceptively simple questions: What? So what? Now what? The first leads to careful observation. The second invites you to thoughtfully consider options and implications. The third ignites effective action. Together, these questions and the tools that support them produce a dynamic and creative dance with uncertainty. The road-tested steps of adaptive action can be used to devise solutions and improve performance across multiple challenges, and they have proven to be scalable from individuals to work groups, from organizations to communities.