Top 36 Ronald Heifetz Quotes
#1. If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.
Robert Hewison
#2. "We have a responsibility and an obligation to do everything we can to try to make this work."
John Hickenlooper
#3. 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.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#4. Most people instinctively follow a dominant trend in an organization or community, without critical evaluation of its merits. The herd instinct is strong.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#5. The lodgings were on the top floor next to the well-guarded premises of a respectable dealer in stolen property because, as Granny had heard, good fences make good neighbors.
Terry Pratchett
#6. 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.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#9. 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.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#11. Values are shaped and refined by rubbing against real problems, and people interpret their problems according to the values they hold.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#12. But if you live your life without feeling and compassion for your fellowman - you are as an animal - 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth' & happiness & peace of mind is not attained by living thus.
Truman Capote
#13. 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.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#14. Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#15. 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.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#16. An overzealous parent is just one example of the kind of Problem Mom or Dad who pops up at track meets, threatening to put a damper on the day.
Don Kardong
#17. Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#19. But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict
Ronald A. Heifetz
#20. Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.
Samuel Rogers
#21. Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#23. Worry not that your child listens to you; worry most that they watch you.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#24. 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.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#25. It isn't possible," she said. "But there it is. Look again." In the distance, pinpricks of light arranged into a grid. There, plainly visible on the side of a hill some miles distant: a town, or a village, whose streets were lit up with electricity.
Emily St. John Mandel
#26. Literature is man's exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want.
David Daiches
#27. 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.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#28. 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.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#29. I said, I try to open my mail at least once a year, but sometimes I neglect it.
H.P. Lovecraft
#30. 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.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#33. 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.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#35. I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.
Alvin Ailey
#36. The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.
Ronald A. Heifetz
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