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Leadership on the Line, With a New Preface
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Leadership on the Line, With a New Preface

by Ronald Heifetz, Marty Linsky
June 2017
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
288 pages
6h 48m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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Hold Steady

We’ve explored why adaptive work generates heat and resistance, the forms of danger this resistance takes, and how to respond. But taking action to manage political relationships, orchestrate the conflict, or give back the work assumes that you are able to meet a more basic challenge—maintaining your poise so that you can plan the best next step. Holding steady in the heat of action is an essential skill for staying alive and keeping people focused on the work. The pressure on you may be almost unbearable, causing you to doubt both your own capacities and your direction. If you waver or act prematurely, your initiative can be lost in an instant.

Take the Heat

Learning to take the heat and receive people’s anger in a way that ...

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ISBN: 9781633692848