Top 25 Ronald A. Heifetz Quotes
#1. And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own.
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#2. Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.
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#4. Worry not that your child listens to you; worry most that they watch you.
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#5. Mental health professionals have said for a long time that individuals cannot adapt well to too many life changes at once. If you suffer a loss in the family, change jobs, and move all within a short time, the chances are your own internal stability may break down, or show signs of serious strain.
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#6. Your silence creates a vacuum for others to fill The key is to stay present and keep listening. The silence of holding steady is different from the silence of holding back.
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#7. But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict
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#8. Exercising leadership is an expression of your aliveness ... But when you cover yourself up, you risk losing something as well. In the struggle to save yourself, you can give up too many of those qualities that are the essence of being alive, like innocence, curiosity, and compassion.
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#11. The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template.
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#13. The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.
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#14. If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.
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#15. Most people instinctively follow a dominant trend in an organization or community, without critical evaluation of its merits. The herd instinct is strong.
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#16. Your inspiration taps hidden reserves of promise that sustain people through times that induce despair. You enable people to envision a future that sustains the best from their past while also holding out new possibilities.
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#19. You cannot expect people to seriously consider your idea without accepting the possibility that they will challenge it. Accepting that process of engagement as the terrain of leadership liberates you personally.
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#20. Values are shaped and refined by rubbing against real problems, and people interpret their problems according to the values they hold.
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#21. Progress on problems is the measure of leadership; leaders mobilize people to face problems, and communities make progress on problems because leaders challenge them and help them to do so.
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#22. Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.
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#23. When you lead people through difficult change, you take them on an emotional roller coaster because you are asking them to relinquish something - a belief, a value, a behavior - that they hold dear. People can stand only so much change at any one time.
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#24. Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.
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