Prodaptive versus Adaptive
Adaptability was yesteryear’s concept. Today’s leaders understand prodaptability.
Adaptability holds a passive connotation; whereas prodaptability is proactive.
Adaptive organisms are reactive & responsive to change.
Prodaptive organisms are even better suited to change, because they’ve purposely & proactively pre-adapted themselves, based on…
- meta-understanding of adaptability,
- good anticipations of the future.
If you’re prodaptive, you’re not just responding to change, you’re making the change!
As John Boyd (the OODA guy) would say, you’re “shaping” your environment to meet your needs & wants.
Where the adaptive control their ship’s sails, the prodaptive impact the direction of the winds. Or at least building better boats.
Prodaptability is appreciating the articulable traits, characteristics, & behaviors of things that are adaptive, but taking it a step beyond: They purposely build these aspects into themselves, their contexts, & their systems.
Learn about things, organisms, systems, and ecosystems that are pre-suited to adapt well, not just those that survive the change.
Position yourself for an uncertain future by shaping it & yourself.
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Lou Hayes, Jr. is a detective supervisor in a suburban Chicago police department, collaterally detailed to a regional major crimes (homicide) task force. He has a passion for multi-jurisdictional crime patterns, criminal networks, & regional intelligence. With a background in training, he studies human performance, decision-making, creativity, emotional intelligence, & adaptability.
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