Leadership Without Easy Answers
by Ronald A. Heifetz
The original adaptive leadership text: technical problems have known solutions; adaptive challenges require people to change their values and habits, and leaders must regulate distress while keeping attention on the hard work. Scholarly and foundational.
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you want the theory beneath Leadership on the Line.
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you want the practical version; read that instead.
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Three things you will actually use
- Technical versus adaptive.
- Regulate distress; do not remove it.
- Authority is not leadership.
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Classify your current challenges as technical or adaptive.
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Technical versus adaptive.
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