Staff and volunteers and participants of this program have likely put blood, sweat, and tears into their cooking. “We are leading a blood-and-guts organization with real emotions inside it,” said our instructor, Professor Stephen Page. The technical solution is to shut down this program. The program, however, is not financially solvent and has been causing the organization to lose money as it operates. Let’s say you have a program that teaches kids confidence and creativity through cooking. But this was my unicorn, and I didn’t like it being mishandled and moved around because it was a really cool and rare unicorn poster with significant emotional value and I was used to it being where I left it.Īll right, fine, shut up. One day I came to the office, and the unicorn poster was gone! I asked a staff about it, and they said there wasn’t enough Velcro tape for it to stick to the brick wall, and that’s why the unicorn fell and had to be moved to the corner. I put it up on the wall next to my desk, and the unicorn looked down at me and inspired me to do my work. For example, a while ago, a friend gave me a unicorn poster.

“The most common cause of failure in leadership is produced by treating adaptive challenges as if they were technical problems,” says Ron Heifetz in his book The Practice of Adaptive Leadership, and I am beginning to see that as leaders and as a society we all do this all the time. Adaptive challenges are so much more complicated and involve human beings and their emotions and crap like that. Technical problems are simpler and usually have apparent solutions. Good leaders must understand to differentiate one from the other, and oftentimes we totally suck at doing that. Kidding, kidding!Ī very useful concept that we have learned is the concept of Technical challenges versus Adaptive challenges. For example, don’t eat nine pounds of potatoes before a 3-hour discussion on measurements and evaluations. I am learning all sorts of interesting and useful stuff. Thank you, Medina Foundation, for this scholarship so I can participate in this program. Day 3 of the Nonprofit Executive Leadership Institute ( NELI).

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