And this brings us very nicely to another very important point about leadership. In life we get presented with many problems or challenges, many of which we’ve seen before – we can simply apply what we have previously learned and defer to expertise or hierarchy to work through them. However, if we are working on bringing something new into existence, that we have never accomplished before the problems we will need to overcome by definition have no known solutions. We simply don’t have the answers. This calls for a different leadership skill – we call this Adaptive Leadership – which is all about effectively leading when you don’t have the answers. The good news is this can be learned through a process – one of engaging everyone to work through the challenge and solution – together.