The theory behind the practice cambridge leadership associates. Staying alive through the dangers of leading with marty linsky harvard business school press, 2002. Leadership on the line harvard business press, 2002, andthe practice of adaptive leadership harvard business press, 2009. Marty linsky is adjunct lecturer in public policy at the center for public leadership at harvard university. Ronald heifetz founded the center for public leadership and is the king. In this excerpt from their new book leadership on the line. Staying alive through the dangers of leading, and the practice of adaptive leadership. Heifetz and linsky question what makes leaders effective and provides insights into the differences between technical work of leading and the. As a leader you need to ask yourself honestly what you did to get everyone into a bad spot to begin with.
Leadership on the line, by ron heifetz and marty linsky, and the practice of adaptive leadership, by heifetz, linsky, and alexander grashow. Its one of the first leadership books that i have come across that made sense, intuitively, to me. Staying alive through the dangers of leadingharvard business school press, may 23, 2002, heifetz and linsky provide the first personal survival book for people who seek to lead. Heifetz ronald grashow alexander linsky marty abebooks. He is the author of over a dozen books and chapters, including leveling the playing field, coauthored with shifra bronznick and didi goldenhar 2008. The key concepts of the adaptive leadership framework created by ron heifetz and marty linsky at the harvard kennedy school, explained here in. Marty linsky is a professor at the harvard university kennedy school of government and a cofounder with ronald a. Introduction purpose and possibility these are uncommon times and we must find better ways to. Ronald heifetz came to writing and lecturing about leadership through the profession of psychiatry.
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