“Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.”
Ronald A. Heifetz“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, Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading“Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.”
Ronald A. Heifetz, The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World“The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.”
Ronald A. Heifetz, The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World“Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.”
Ronald A. Heifetz, The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World“Your silence creates a vacuum for others to fill The key is to stay present and keep listening. The silence of holding steady is different from the silence of holding back.”
Ronald A. Heifetz, The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World“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, The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World“What people resist is not change per se, but loss.”
Ronald A. Heifetz, The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World“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, The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World“Worry not that your child listens to you”
worry most that they watch you.