Time Out From The Dance Floor Leadership On The Line

Staying alive through the dangers of leading two harvard university s john f.

Time out from the dance floor leadership on the line. That s where the magic is going back and forth between the two using one to leverage the other. If you want to affect what is happening you must return to the dance floor. Get off the dance floor daily operations and up on the balcony. Leadership can be found in every activity and every situation in life.

In their fine book leadership on the line authors ron heifetz and marty linsky offer a practical and wise solution. M in their book leadership on the line encourage leaders to get on the balcony and adopt adaptive leadership. Leadership on the line. In this excerpt from their new book leadership on the line.

5 28 2002 it s not enough to lead everyone out of the mud. Observing sharing information asking questions listening deeply and making constant adjustments. As a leader you need to ask yourself honestly what you did to get everyone into a bad spot to begin with. The work of heifetz.

One must develop the ability to move back and forth as required from the balcony to the dance floor. So you need to be both among the dancers and up on the balcony. Staying alive through the dangers of leading. The analogy of being on a dance floor being part of the action makes it difficult for leaders to see who isn t technically dancing or who is moving in the wrong direction.

Chicago had the ball and a time out to plan a final shot. Kennedy school of government faculty pool ideas to look deeper at the hard wo.