They relied on new learning. At the heart of adaptive leadership is learning. To put it bluntly, if you are not learning anything new, it is not adaptive work. It might be a good, necessary, wise, even vital strategy. But if your group is addressing a new challenge with an old solution, relying on a best practice or implementing the plan of a resident expert, then the solution is a technical one, not adaptive. Again, this is the place where so many churches’ missional initiatives get stalled. We gather in large groups, we bring in consultants, we do workshops, and we create a list of missional
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