P&P February 2016

The 2015 Human Services Summit: Emergent Leadership—Turning Ideas into Outcomes— brought together leaders whose experiences reveal that human service agencies are at a tipping point. 1 To make progress, they must abandon the status quo. This can be ener- gizing, but overwhelming.

This is where adaptive leadership comes in.

Illustration by Chris Campbell/Shuttersotck

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