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Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
John W. Gardner's Address at Stanford's 100th Commencement Ceremony
John W. Gardnergardnercenter.stanford.edu
In this approach, the teacher remains the authority in the class-room—providing orientation and maintaining equilibrium in the group. But the teacher is also practicing leadership—skillfully allowing enough disequilibrium (confusion, frustration, disappointment, conflict, and stress) to help the group move from unexamined assumptions about the prac
... See moreSharon Daloz Parks • Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World
I’ve met Ayn Rand fanatics all over—among Silicon Valley venture capitalists, at the office of the Tampa Bay Tea Party, even on a road paving crew. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (who read Atlas Shrugged in high school) brought her pitiless philosophy of egoism to policymaking on Capitol Hill. Libertarianism speaks to the American myth of the self-
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
UNDERSTANDING THE POLITICAL relationships in your organization is key to seeing how your organization works as a system.
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
David Brooks • The Relationalist Manifesto
rest include a smaller number who express what others may also feel. They are looking for validation of their competence.