Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)

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CHAPTER 14

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Identify Your Loyalties

T

O BETTER UNDERSTAND yourself as a system, examine three

circles of your loyalties:

• Colleagues. Those people with whom you have an immediate

professional relationship, such as boss, peers, subordinates, and

fellow committee members

• Community. Current family members, friends, and groups with

whom you identify outside of work in your current social, polit-

ical, and religious affiliations

• Ancestors. People from the past with whom you identify who

have shaped how you see the world, such as a revered grandpar-

ent, a special teacher, as well as the groups of people who form

your gender, religious, ethnic, or national roots.

To identify the factions within each circle of your loyalties, start with

your colleagues, mo ...