Ronald Heifetz Quotes

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Worry not that your child listens to you; worry most that they watch you.

Ronald Heifetz

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 Heifetz

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 Heifetz

Values are shaped and refined by rubbing against real problems, and people interpret their problems according to the values they hold.

Ronald Heifetz

Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.

Ronald Heifetz

The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.

Ronald Heifetz

Ronald Heifetz

Ronald Heifetz

Born: February 7, 1951 (age 73)

Bio: Ronald Heifetz is the King Hussein bin Talal Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership, Founding Director of the Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and co-founder of Cambridge Leadership Associates.

Known for:

Leadership Without Easy Answers (1994)
Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items) (2014)
Get on the Balcony (2002)

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