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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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What’s on the Line?

We have focused in this book on practical advice that addresses the question, How can you lead and stay alive? And we have offered a variety of answers, none of them easy. Some solutions stem from your ability to analyze a situation and understand the issues, stakes, and pace of change appropriate for the people around you. Some answers lie in creating strategic holding environments for conflicts. Others emerge from your tactical ability to respond quickly to changing situations, work avoidance patterns, and deviations from the plan. And some answers can be found in the strength of your personal life, your relationships, and in your practices of renewal.

But we have not yet explored the root question: Why lead? If exercising ...

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ISBN: 9781633692848