Leadership Without Easy Answers, Volumen465The economy uncertain, education in decline, cities under siege, crime and poverty spiraling upward, international relations roiling: we look to leaders for solutions, and when they don't deliver, we simply add their failure to our list of woes. In doing so, we do them and ourselves a grave disservice. We are indeed facing an unprecedented crisis of leadership, Ronald Heifetz avows, but it stems as much from our demands and expectations as from any leader's inability to meet them. His book gets at both of these problems, offering a practical approach to leadership for those who lead as well as those who look to them for answers. Fitting the theory and practice of leadership to our extraordinary times, the book promotes a new social contract, a revitalization of our civic life just when we most desperately need it. Drawing on a dozen years of research among managers, officers, and politicians in the public realm and the private sector, among the nonprofits, and in teaching, Heifetz presents clear, concrete prescriptions for anyone who needs to take the lead in almost any situation, under almost any organizational conditions, no matter who's in charge. His strategy of leadership applies not only to people at the top but also to those who must lead without authority - activists as well as presidents, managers as well as workers on the frontline. Here are Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and Mahatma Gandhi, in triumph and in tragedy. Here too are military officers and soldiers, doctors and patients, college students, and local civic groups. Sketched with precision, touched by empathy, and unfailingly interesting, this cast of characters brings Heifetz's theory to life, demonstratingwhat a practitioner can do - or avoid doing - to assume leadership in an age without easy answers. |
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Crítica de los usuarios - dasam - LibraryThingThe single most important book on leadership for formal or informal leaders to read and reread. The same is true for followers. Every time I dip back in, I find it ever more relevant both to my own role and responsibilities and to the political scene. Leer comentario completo
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Crítica de los usuarios - KeithMerron - LibraryThingRonald Heifetz is a wonderfully deep thinker in the area of leadership and has a number of books out on the topic. This was his breakthrough book. In it, he presents a new theory of leadership for ... Leer comentario completo
Contenido
Values in Leadership | 15 |
To Lead or Mislead? | 30 |
The Roots of Authority | 51 |
Leading With Authority | 69 |
Mobilizing Adaptive Work | 71 |
Applying Power | 103 |
On a Razors Edge | 127 |
Falling Off the Edge | 152 |
Creative Deviance on the Frontline | 185 |
Modulating the Provocation | 209 |
Staying Alive | 235 |
Assassination | 237 |
The Personal Challenge | 252 |
Notes | 281 |
Acknowledgments | 331 |
Index | 335 |
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Leadership Without Easy Answers, Volumen465 Ronald A. HEIFETZ,Ronald Heifetz Vista de fragmentos - 1994 |
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