Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)

came to light as a result of outside scrutiny. Kerasiotes’s manage-

ment then became the issue, and he was fired. His hunger for con-

trol had become the driving purpose, blinding him and preventing

him from finding a strategy of sharing the work that would have

enabled him to survive with his reputation intact.

Perhaps more than any other institution, the military prepares

people to operate in the midst of chaos and to exercise raw power to

restore order. It tends to attract people who have a need for control

and in fact prepares them to take control. If you are in a newly

formed group struggling to organize itself and a military person is

present, you may find that the military person steps forward with

the skill, and the need, to get things moving. H ...