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Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)
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Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)

by Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky
September 2014
Intermediate to advanced
649 pages
17h 1m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Content preview from Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)
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CHAPTER 3
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Before You Begin
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RACTICING ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP is difficult on the one
hand and profoundly meaningful on the other; it is not something
you should enter into casually. Here are four tips to consider before you
step out there.
Don’t Do It Alone
Sounds easy and obvious, but we have seen over and over again how
people who are trying to do the right thing end up out on a limb all
alone. It is not only lonely out there; it is dangerous. Those who see
your good works as a threat will find you a much easier target if you are
out there by yourself.
If the peril is so obvious, why do so many people end up going it
alone? Three reasons: first, their opponents will do whatever it takes to
make them vulnerable. For example, they might say something like, ...
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