Leadership without easy answers / Ronald A. Heifetz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heifetz, Ronald A. (Ronald Abadian), 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership.

Social psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 348 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing on a dozen years of research among managers, officers, and politicians in the public realm and the private sector, among the nonprofits, and in teaching, Heifetz presents clear, concrete prescriptions for anyone who needs to take the lead in almost any situation, under almost any organizational conditions, no matter who is in charge.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Part I. Setting the Frame

1. Values in Leadership

2. To Lead or Mislead?

3. The Roots of Authority

Part II. Leading With Authority

4. Mobilizing Adaptive Work

5. Applying Power

6. On a Razors Edge

7. Falling Off the Edge

Part III. Leading Without Authority

8. Creative Deviance on the Frontline

9. Modulating the Provocation

Part IV. Staying Alive

10. Assassination

11. The Personal Challenge

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-337) and index.

ISBN:

9780674038479

0674038479

OCLC:

923116713