The Leader of the Future | Fast Company - The Diigo Meta page

• 03 May 12
  

  Charles van der Haegen

  "It's hard to imagine discussing "the leader of the future" without having a discussion with Ronald Heifetz -- one of the world's leading authorities on leadership. Heifetz, 48, director of the Leadership Education Project at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, is a scholar, a teacher, and a consultant. His course at Harvard, "Exercising Leadership," is legendary for its popularity with students and for its impact on them. His students (many of them in mid-career) include leaders from all walks of life: business executives, generals, priests and rabbis, politicians. His clients have included senior executives at BellSouth, who brought him on to conduct a two-year program on leadership in a fast-changing world, and the president of Ecuador, who is struggling to lead that nation through tough economic times."

• 06 Nov 09
  

  Emily Vickery

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• 15 Jun 09
  

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  • The role of the leader is changing, Heifetz argues. The new role is "to help people face reality and to mobilize them to make change."
  • Exercising leadership generates resistance -- and pain. People are afraid that they will lose something that's worthwhile. They're afraid that they're going to have to give up something that they're comfortable with."
  • The real heroism of leadership involves having the courage to face reality -- and helping the people around you to face reality.
  • the quality of any vision depends on its accuracy, not just on its appeal or on how imaginative it is.
  • The leader has the answers -- the vision -- and everything else is a sales job to persuade people to sign up for it. Leaders certainly provide direction. But that often means posing well-structured questions, rather than offering definitive answers.
  • leadership means influencing the organization to face its problems and to live into its opportunities.
  • Conflict is dangerous: It can damage relationships. It can threaten friendships. But conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference. So hand in hand with the courage to face reality comes the courage to surface and orchestrate conflicts.

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• 15 May 09
  

  Josh Mann

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• 15 Jul 08
  

  Jim Leous

  Interview in FastCompany with Harvard professor Ronald Heifetz on leadership and "The Leader of the Future."

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  Jimmy Vuccolo

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• 02 May 08
  

  Victor Kotusenko

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• 20 Apr 08
  

  Ryan Bretag

  leadership change articles

  • The real heroism of leadership involves having the courage to face reality -- and helping the people around you to face reality.
  • Mustering the courage to interrogate reality is a central function of a leader. And that requires the courage to face three realities at once
• 20 Jul 07
  

  Jason Siko

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