Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)

initial and dramatic effort to cross this divide, he assigned a business-

side person to each of the senior editors, with the goal of working

together to increase profitability. He was trying to create a part-

nership between factions that had traditionally remained at arm’s

length from each other in mutual suspicion, if not outright hostility.

Willes had gained some support for this objective from his

board, from sales and marketing, and even from a few folks on the

editorial side. But Willes was not a journalist, and he had never

worked in a news organization. Everyone knew Willes was boss, but

most people on the news side of the organization saw him as an

outsider, trying to change a deeply held value within the newsroom.

From their perspective, c ...