Leadership Without Easy Answers

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By Ronald A. Heifetz

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Leadership Without Easy Answers by Ronald A. Heifetz explores the complex challenges of leadership in turbulent times. Heifetz examines how unrealistic expectations and societal demands contribute to a crisis in leadership. Drawing on extensive research from diverse sectors, he offers practical guidance for those who lead and those who rely on them, emphasising leadership beyond formal authority. The book advocates a renewed social contract and civic engagement to address today's pressing issues.
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This book is ideal for leaders and aspiring leaders across all sectors, including business professionals, public servants, activists, and anyone interested in understanding the deeper dynamics of leadership in challenging environments.

Recognizing that many leadership crises stem as much from over- expectation as the leader's inability, this text provides a practical approach to leadership for those who lead (be they in authority or not) as well as those who look to them for answers.

A superb book for any age, but particularly for our current one, where society is so desperately in need of its wisdom and expertise. Leadership without Easy Answers should be required reading for top managers in all sectors--private, public, and nonprofit. I hope it will also be widely read by the citizenry that is so much in need of an attitude shift on the nature of authority. This book is also very much about citizenship. -- M. Scott Peck, Author of The Road Less Traveled Alive with insights, concepts, new ideas, just teeming with the kind of creative approach to the study of leadership that I and of course many others esteem. In a field in which there has been a great deal of repetitious work, Heifetz strikes out in ground-breaking directions. -- James MacGregor Burns, Author of Leadership Remarkably thoughtful, provocative, and useful. This book will be seen as a major contribution that provides a rare interdisciplinary view of leadership in context. Leaders as well as serious students of the process of leadership and the development of leaders need to have this book on their shelves. -- General Walter Ulmer, U. S. Army (Ret.), President and CEO, Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, North Carolina Heifetz turns out to be one of the most thoughtful scholars on leadership. His direct and relevant concepts are pathbreaking. -- James David Barber, Author of Presidential Character Original and penetrating in its analysis of leadership. This is an excellent book. Important and valuable. -- John Gardner, former Secretary HEW, Founder of Common Cause Leadership without Easy Answers should go a long way toward clearing up many confusions about leadership. Long a master teacher of leaders, Heifetz's courses and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government have been standing-room only for years. Read this book and see why. -- Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline

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The economy uncertain, education in decline, cities under siege, crime and poverty spiralling upward, international relations roiling: we look to leaders for solutions, and when they don't deliver, we simply add their failure to our list of woes. In doing so, we do them and ourselves a grave disservice. We are indeed facing an unprecedented crisis of leadership, Ronald Heifetz avows, but it stems as much from our demands and expectations as from any leader's inability to meet them.

His book, Leadership Without Easy Answers, gets at both of these problems, offering a practical approach to leadership for those who lead as well as those who look to them for answers. Fitting the theory and practice of leadership to our extraordinary times, the book promotes a new social contract, a revitalisation of our civic life just when we most need it.

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 organisational conditions, no matter who is in charge. His strategy applies not only to people at the top but also to those who must lead without authority—activists as well as presidents, managers as well as workers on the front line.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780674518582

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 22 July 1998

Country: United States

Imprint: The Belknap Press

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 658g

Pages: 368

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About the Author

Ronald A. Heifetz is King Hussein bin Talal Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership and Founder of the Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

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