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# Adaptive Leadership for Agile Organizations

## Details

**Authors** Cabrera L, Cabrera D

**Year** 2023

**Publisher** Handbook of Systems Thinking

**Kind of work** chapter, article

[Read it at the publisher](https://doi.org/10.54120/jost.0000039) 
10.54120/jost.0000039

## In authors' words

### Abstract

This paper explores how the fundamental structure of organizations (Vision, Mission, Capacity, and Learning, or VMCL) can assist agile organizations with adaptive leadership. Through learning the four functions of the VMCL theory, this paper will also explore how organizations can utilize the ideas of complex adaptive systems, POSIWID, feedback and how structure drives behavior. Using a case study on the systematic failure of Wells Fargo, this paper will demonstrate a real-world example of applying VMCL to improve the systems within organizations.

## Commentary

### Response

Published in the Handbook of Systems Thinking (Cabrera, Cabrera & Midgley, eds., 2023), a volume built on the premise that systems thinking now has a universal theory—DSRP-484. Its contents were selected on that basis by its editorial team in concert with a team of advisors.

**Patterns it shows** D, S, R, P

## Refers to

- [Handbook of Systems Thinking](https://dsrpevidence.org/element/382)

## Questions it bears on

- Q10. [What is an adaptive organization?](https://dsrpevidence.org/question/adaptive-organization)
- Q18. [What is culture ($\mathbb{C}$), and where does it live?](https://dsrpevidence.org/question/culture)

**How to cite this** Cabrera L, Cabrera D (2023). Adaptive Leadership for Agile Organizations. Handbook of Systems Thinking.