Ronald A. Heifetz quotes

“Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.”
-- Ronald A. Heifetz

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“The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template.”
-- Ronald A. Heifetz

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“Progress on problems is the measure of leadership; leaders mobilize people to face problems, and communities make progress on problems because leaders challenge them and help them to do so.”
-- Ronald A. Heifetz

Source : Ronald A. HEIFETZ, Ronald A Heifetz (2009). “Leadership Without Easy Answers”, p.15, Harvard University Press

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“But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict”
-- Ronald A. Heifetz

Source : Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, Alexander Grashow (2013). “The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World”, p.203, Harvard Business Press

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“What people resist is not change per se, but loss.”
-- Ronald A. Heifetz

Source : Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, Alexander Grashow (2014). “Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)”, p.185, Harvard Business Review Press

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“Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.”
-- Ronald A. Heifetz

Source : Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, Alexander Grashow (2013). “The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World”, p.219, Harvard Business Press

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“Attention is the currency of leadership.”
-- Ronald A. Heifetz

Source : Ronald A. HEIFETZ, Ronald A Heifetz (2009). “Leadership Without Easy Answers”, p.113, Harvard University Press

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“And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own.”
-- Ronald A. Heifetz

Source : "Lessons In Leadership: It's Not About You. (It's About Them)". "Morning Edition" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. November 11, 2013.

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“Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.”
-- Ronald A. Heifetz

Source : Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, Alexander Grashow (2014). “Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)”, p.320, Harvard Business Review Press

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“Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines.”
-- Ronald A. Heifetz

Source : Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, Alexander Grashow (2014). “Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)”, p.204, Harvard Business Review Press

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“Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.”
-- Ronald A. Heifetz

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“Values are shaped and refined by rubbing against real problems, and people interpret their problems according to the values they hold.”
-- Ronald A. Heifetz

Source : Ronald A. HEIFETZ, Ronald A Heifetz (2009). “Leadership Without Easy Answers”, p.22, Harvard University Press

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“Your inspiration taps hidden reserves of promise that sustain people through times that induce despair. You enable people to envision a future that sustains the best from their past while also holding out new possibilities.”
-- Ronald A. Heifetz

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“Worry not that your child listens to you; worry most that they watch you.”
-- Ronald A. Heifetz

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“If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.”
-- Ronald A. Heifetz

Source : Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, Alexander Grashow (2014). “Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)”, p.319, Harvard Business Review Press

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“The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.”
-- Ronald A. Heifetz

Source : Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, Alexander Grashow (2014). “Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)”, p.193, Harvard Business Review Press

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“Exercising leadership is an expression of your aliveness... But when you cover yourself up, you risk losing something as well. In the struggle to save yourself, you can give up too many of those qualities that are the essence of being alive, like innocence, curiosity, and compassion.”
-- Ronald A. Heifetz

Source : Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky (2013). “Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading”, p.119, Harvard Business Press

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“Stay diagnostic even as you take action.”
-- Ronald A. Heifetz

Source : Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, Alexander Grashow (2014). “Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)”, p.254, Harvard Business Review Press

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“I think that notion of leadership is bankrupt.”
-- Ronald A. Heifetz

Source : "Lessons In Leadership: It's Not About You. (It's About Them)". "Morning Edition" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. November 11, 2013.

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