Adaptive Leadership
Adaptive leadership draws on improvisation principles to help leaders respond effectively to unpredictable situations. It emphasizes flexibility, comfort with ambiguity, the ability to make decisions with incomplete information, and the capacity to adjust strategy in real time, skills that improvisation exercises develop through practice.
Further Reading
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Getting to Yes And
The Art of Business Improv
Bob Kulhan; Chuck Crisafulli
Improv Leadership
How to Lead Well in Every Moment
Stan Endicott; David A. Miller; Cory Hartman
The Improv Mindset
Change Your Brain. Change Your Business.
Gail Montgomery; Bruce T. Montgomery
Brain Disruption
Radical Innovation in Business Through Improv
Bruce Montgomery; Gail Montgomery
When I Say This, Do You Mean That?
Enhancing Communication
Cherie Kerr; Julia Sweeney
Yes, And
How Improvisation Reverses No, But Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration
Kelly Leonard; Tom Yorton
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