Technical Problems vs. Adaptive Challenges in Leadership

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Difference between technical and adaptive challenges and examples
Every organization faces challenges that can either be technical or adaptive. These two types of challenges are distinctively different from each other. Technical challenges are often easy to identify and solve, unlike adaptive ones that may take longer to identify and tough to solve because they need a change in values, roles, beliefs, work approaches, relationships, and organizational culture. Experts solve technical challenges as opposed to adaptive challenges that need the people affected by the problem to solve them. Another difference between technical and adaptive challenges is that the former requires few changes, often in one or few places within the organizational boundaries. The latter may need changes in numerous places beyond the organizational boundaries ...