Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)

Introduction

Every day the opportunity for leadership stands before you.

• A father gets drawn into the same old destructive argument at

the dinner table, but one day breaks out of the pattern and

seeks family counseling.

• An investment banker nearly closes a $100 billion acquisition,

but confounds everyone by putting the whole deal at risk when

she asks, “Can these companies create synergies fast enough to

satisfy the investors, given the current talent and different cul-

tures within each of the businesses?”

• A politician challenges constituents to accept responsibility for

locating a prison in their community, rather than chant the

same old slogan, “Not in our backyard!”

• A neighbor watches the nice kid down the street getting lost in

his teenage ...