Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)

Keep the Opposition Close

As the executive director of a local nonprofit organization, Pete

developed and maintained shelters for homeless and physically dis-

abled people in an upper middle class suburb in southern Con-

necticut. He had achieved a record of remarkable success. He care-

fully planned each project from concept through land acquisition

and implementation. He operated with political sensitivity. As a

result, he acquired broad support from elected and appointed offi-

cials in town government.

Now he moved forward in a slightly new direction. He organized

to create a home for mentally ill residents of the town, so that they

could choose an option ...