Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)

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Manage Your Hungers

From our own observation and painful personal experience, we

know that the cleanest way for an organization to bring you down

is to let you bring yourself down. Then no one else feels responsi-

ble. All too often we self-destruct or give others the ammunition

they need to shoot us down.

Frequently people are defeated because, though they are doing

their best, they make mistakes in how they assess and engage their

environment, as we have explored so far in Parts One and Two of

this book. But sometimes we bring ourselves down by forgetting to

pay attention to ourselves. We get caught up in the cause and forget

that exercising leadership ...