Customer Review: This is a book about leadership. It is not the standard leadership book that sets forth winning skills and practices, nor is it a report of leadership research. Rather, this is a book of leadership wisdom. Leadership, the authors suggest, is the work of leading people through difficult change.... more info
Customer Review: The late Marvin Bower (McKinsey & Company's mastermind) was an avid reader of leadership books, and lost no opportunity to coach his partners with memos focusing on different aspects of personal leadership and professional values. He was very fond of Heifetz work, and with occasion of the... more info
Much of the contextual material in this volume is out-of-date, given the fact that the eight articles originally appeared in the Harvard Business Review years ago (1975-1998). However, I think the core concepts remain sound and provide a valuable frame-of-reference for understanding the... more info
Customer Review: This is a must read. It really tells it like it is and we need this kind of information to get the job done. I wish every parent and teacher could read this book. It is now a handbook that I keep close.
Customer Review: This book has little to do with resilence nor the building of it, but descriptive accounts of trauma/change/disaster handling (911 is frequently mentioned) that are normally grouped under "Leadership". Perhaps the only exception is Chapter One "How Resilience Works" by Diane Coutu, which discusses... more info
Customer Review: Ronald A. Heifetz and Marty Linksy teach leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. They are the authors of Leadership on the Line (2002), from which this Harvard Business Review article (June 2002) is adapted.
In this article the authors provide leaders with... more info
Customer Review: Ronald A. Heifetz is codirector of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University's JFK School of Government; Donald L. Laurie is founder and managing director of management-consulting firm Laurie International. Laurie is the author of 'Venture Catalyst' (2001). This article, published in... more info
