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Leadership on the Line

Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky

How can you lead change that matters and survive the danger that comes with it?

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Author
Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky

Why read it

  • You will learn to tell technical problems from adaptive challenges, and why lasting change has to be adaptive to stick
  • You will stop trying to lead alone, since the authors say the lone warrior strategy may be heroic suicide
  • You will be able to step back and watch the whole pattern of action, even while you are in the middle of it

Who it is for

  • A manager pushing a change that many people resist
  • A community organizer taking on a hard local issue
  • A leader who senses sabotage and wants to survive it

Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Now More Than Ever
  3. Leadership Traps: The Transformation Dilemma
  4. Sustainable Change Is Adaptive
  5. Systemic Adaptation: The Colombian Example
  6. Adaptation at the Personal Level: The Stages of Life
  7. Our Own Evolution
  8. Introduction
  9. PART ONE
  10. The Challenge
  11. The Heart of Danger
  12. Leadership Is Dangerous
  13. The Perils of Adaptive Change
  14. Going Beyond Your Authority
  15. At the Heart of Danger Is Loss
  16. The Faces of Danger
  17. Marginalization
  18. Diversion
  19. Attack
  20. Seduction
  21. PART TWO
  22. The Response
  23. Get on the Balcony
  24. Distinguish Technical from Adaptive Challenges
  25. Find Out Where People Are
  26. Listen to the Song Beneath the Words
  27. Read the Authority Figure for Clues
  28. Think Politically
  29. Find Partners
  30. Keep the Opposition Close
  31. Accept Responsibility for Your Piece of the Mess
  32. Acknowledge Their Loss
  33. Model the Behavior
  34. Accept Casualties
  35. Orchestrate the Conflict
  36. Create a Holding Environment
  37. Control the Temperature
  38. Pace the Work
  39. Show Them the Future
  40. Give the Work Back
  41. Take the Work off Your Shoulders
  42. Place the Work Where It Belongs
  43. Make Your Interventions Short and Simple
  44. Observations
  45. Questions
  46. Interpretations
  47. Actions
  48. Hold Steady
  49. Take the Heat
  50. Let the Issues Ripen
  51. Focus Attention on the Issue
  52. PART THREE
  53. Body and Soul
  54. Manage Your Hungers
  55. Power and Control
  56. Affirmation and Importance
  57. Intimacy and Sexual Pleasure
  58. What Can You Do about It?
  59. Transitional Rituals
  60. Rekindle the Sparks

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