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Organizations must deliver today’s results while developing tomorrow’s possibilities. This chapter explores how employees can help balance these competing demands through self-leadership—the ability to direct, motivate, and regulate their own work. Synthesizing relevant literature, it proposes a framework connecting self-leadership with individual ambidexterity: combining efficient execution with experimentation and innovation. It also highlights trust, supportive team environments, and knowledge sharing as conditions that enable these behaviors. For organizational leaders, the chapter offers a foundation for developing adaptability from within, connecting employee agency and leadership development with the broader challenge of sustaining both operational effectiveness and innovation.