Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)

with which we began this book. Every day, opportunities for leader-

ship present themselves to us, and we refuse most of them. Why?

We have devoted most of this book to exploring the dangers of

leadership that make us hold back, as well as ways to diminish these

obstacles and lessen the perils. In our work with thousands of men

and women over the last twenty years, two final reasons for hesita-

tion appear again and again.

• People get stuck in the myth of measurement.

• People forget that the form of the contribution does not matter.

The Myth of Measurement

For some people, stepping out on the line is worth the risk only if

success can be seen, touched, ...