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Adaptive Leadership and Evolution
In The Practice of Adaptive Leadership Heifetz, Grashow and Linksy borrow concepts from evolutionary biology.
  1. Natural organisms constantly change and evolve.
    1. Change is needed as natural organisms adapt to their environment.
    1. Natural evolution, however, is often gradual. Only small parts of the old DNAs of the organisms are discarded. The major parts are kept.
    1. Likewise, Heifetz, Grashow and Linksy suggest that change processes should not involve MAJOR transformation. Leaders must decide what parts of the "organizational DNA" must be kept and what parts require adaptation.
It's True! It's True! Heifetz, Grashow, and Linsky observed that the modern human being's DNA is only 2 percent different from the DNA of human ancestors.