Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)

Run Experiments 287

ON THE PRACTICE FIELD

• The next time you are describing changes you believe people in your

organization should make, balance discussion of the good things

that will come from those changes with acknowledgment of the

painful things. Specify the sacrifices you are ready to make personally.

Then actually make them (not just talk about them). Notice whether

there seems to be more or less resistance to your proposed changes

from others in your organization.

Display Your Own Incompetence

You may have risen in the ranks in part because you can solve people’s

problems and provide answers. People who give you authority, formal

and informal, ...