{"id":1716,"date":"2025-07-23T08:05:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T06:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:06:12","slug":"adaptability-quotient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/2025\/adaptability-quotient\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of adaptive intelligence in family firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"74\" data-end=\"363\">In a world where change is the only constant,<strong data-start=\"74\" data-end=\"174\"> our greatest risk isn&#8217;t ignorance, but certainty. <\/strong>In my recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/iese\/2025\/07\/21\/hows-your-aq-why-adaptive-intelligence-is-key-for-managers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Forbes<\/em> article<\/a>, I highlight the importance of <strong>Adaptability Quotient (AQ)<\/strong>: the ability to adjust and pivot when reality doesn&#8217;t align with our expectations.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"365\" data-end=\"596\">AQ is essential for leaders of all types of organizations, but especially in <strong>family businesses<\/strong>, where the <strong>pressure to preserve tradition<\/strong> can make strategic shifts even more challenging.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/iese\/2025\/07\/21\/hows-your-aq-why-adaptive-intelligence-is-key-for-managers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How&#8217;s your AQ? Why adaptive intelligence is key for managers<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><em>Imagen en la home:<\/em><span class=\"Kvkr6 Pc_c1 BC51w\"><em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@juliapotter?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Julia Potter<\/a> \u00b7\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/a-woman-looking-out-a-window-with-sticky-notes-on-it-wJfiW9bGfP4?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Unsplash<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a world where change is the only constant, our greatest risk isn&#8217;t ignorance, but certainty. In my recent Forbes article, I highlight the importance of Adaptability Quotient (AQ): the ability to adjust and pivot when reality doesn&#8217;t align with our expectations. AQ is essential for leaders of all types of organizations, but especially in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2446,"featured_media":1717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[981],"tags":[120223,120225,120224],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leadership","tag-adaptability-quotient","tag-adaptive-intelligence","tag-aq","megacategoria-mc-family-business"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1730,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/1730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}