Leadership Without Easy Answers

Review
Ronald Heifetz brings knowledge of an astonishingly wide range of disciplines to this study of leadership…As a musician, a cellist, he understands that the quality of a performance depends on the audience as well as on the instrumentalist…As a psychiatrist, Heifetz understands that communities cannot be pushed beyond their capacity to adapt…These insights give to Heifetz's book an originality and vivacity one rarely associates with studies on leadership. He illustrates his theses with an extraordinary range of cases and examples…"Leadership Without Easy Answers" reminds us of democracy's rich potential. It is a bold book and an encouraging one. I hope some of our leaders are out there learning. – Shirley Williams "Times Higher Education Supplement"


Product Description Drawing on a dozen years of research among managers, officers and politicians in the public realm and the private sector, among the non-profits, 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's in charge. His strategy of leadership 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 frontline. Here are Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and Mahatma Gandhi, in triumph and in tragedy. Here too are military officers and soldiers, doctors and patients, college students, and local civic groups.