Ronald A. Heifetz Quotes
- Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation.
- 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…
- Worry not that your child listens to you; worry most that they watch you.
- Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.
- 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.
- What people resist is not change per se, but loss.
- 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…
- Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.
- 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…
- Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines.
- 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…
- Stay diagnostic even as you take action.
- The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.
- Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.