Guiding Change: Adapting Leadership for Sustained Organizational Success, by Jonathan H. Westover PhD

Abstract: Organizations seeking long-term success must thoughtfully evolve their leadership approaches to stay relevant in changing times. While past achievements are valuable, leaders must resist complacency and focus on anticipating and shaping the future. This involves scanning the external environment for shifts in demographics, technology, competition, and social/cultural trends, and establishing foundational leadership practices like vision, strategy, learning cultures, stakeholder engagement, and performance management. Recognizing the limitations of traditional hierarchies, leaders must also empower distributed decision-making, apply adaptive leadership principles to tackle complex challenges, and foster continuous improvement through experimentation, data-driven decisions, and reflective practices that embrace inherent organizational paradoxes - blending stability with openness to adaptive evolution in order to transition from past success to future relevance.