Indigenizing Adaptive Leadership for the Philippines and other Asian Cultures

Leadership is not easy to teach or learn. The theory and teaching methods of Adaptive Leader evolved at the Harvard Kennedy School in a multicultural classroom of highly motivated, analytical, students of leadership. This has allowed the theory to evolve at a high level of abstraction that is generalizable to different countries.

There is room to add value in the following ways:
1. Indigenize to country-, culture-, and sector-specific settings, where powerful narratives of colonialism, class, ethnicity, and authority are unnamed and disempowering factors.
2. Develop culture-based heuristic devices to unpack complex adaptive leadership concepts accessible. Translation Science

This blog and podcast series attempt to translate and indigenize concepts in adaptive leadership for the Philippine setting. When possible, it uses the approach of indigenization from within as proposed by Enriquez (1977)  This entails the following processes: 1.identification of key indigenous concepts, methods, and theories; 2. Semantic elaboration; 3) Indigenous codification or re-codification; 4. Systematization/Explication of implied theoretical frameworks; 5. Application/Use

A series of sector-based elaboration will also be attempted, starting with the health and agriculture sectors. For sector-based translations, indigenous health and agricultural concepts shall be translated.


Concepts

1. That Thing Called Tadhana
2. Hiya Culture
3. Ampalaya Conversations
4. Hugot
5. Archetypes
6. Utang na Loob and Unspeakable Loyalties
7. Domination, Class Structure, Pagmamaliit
8. Tsinelas Leadership and Boundary-spanning Techniques
9. Dedma, Walang Paki, Sori na Lang, Cognitive Distancing, and Empathy and Class Distancing.
10. Faith and Perspectives on Poverty (Ruth Callanta)
11. Kalooban, Palabas, and Panlabas
12. Kapwa
13. Walang "K" and Internal Racism
14. Wala sa Lugar
15. Trabaho lang, Walang Personalan
16. English only Please: Colonialism, Dependency, and the Third Story
17. Libre ang Mangarap: Public Narratives
18. Archetypes
19. Bagani
20. Familism
21. Duality and Taskus Be Ridiculous
22. Tsinelas Leadership 
23. Sir Maam and Power Dynamics
24. Walang Pinag-aralan and Wisdom
25. Changing Channels as Getting on the Balcony
26. Pagpapahinog
27. KalyeSerya and Living Leadership Labs
28. Iwas Pusoy and Work Avoidance
29. Adaptive and Generative Governance
30. CYNEFIN simple, kumplikado, labu-labo, masalimuot
31. Shadism and internal racism in Philippines
32. "May pinagdadaanan" as translation of "adaptive change" 
33. Hiya as a deterrent to deviation, adaptive work, and leadership
34. Hiya used to discourage, reduce courage or buo and lakas ng loob

35. Friend Zone similar to Hiya Zone
36. May K(arapatan), walang K; May G(umagawa), Walang G
37. Neurophysiology of Leadership
https://wsb.wisc.edu/faculty-research/forward-thinking-faculty-blog/2016/06/15/understanding-the-chemicals-of-leadership-and-the-impact-they-can-have
38. Adaptive change as May Pinagdadaanan
39. Adaptive Iteration as Talon, Madapa, Pagpag, Matuto, Talon uli
40. Walang K as Leadership/Initiative-Shaming...and Epidemic of Walang K
41. Weak institutions is like osteoporosis or Brittle-bones disease, decision makers take fewer risks.
42. Pseudo ownership (atik-atik/dili tinuod, MEMAsabi), conditional ownership (ipapaalam muna da boss), true non-ownership (diretsaham na ayaw), temporary ownership (feel na feel pero lilipas ang pag ako), true ownership (may hugot at gagawan ng paraan), mandate-based ownership (ito KPI namin). Compare vs Jocanos multiple uses of "yes" in Filipino language.

Sources:

Enriquez, Virgilio G., Filipino Psychology in the Third World, Department of Psychology University of the Philippines,  Philippine Journal of Psychology, Vol.10, p.3-18, 1971.

http://116.50.242.171/PSSC/index.php/pjp01/article/viewFile/34/34

Soriano, Elmer. S, Adaptive Leadership-Bridging Leadership Translation

http://www.adaptiveleadership.civika.com/home/resources/al-bl--dictionary