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The Work of Leadership

Author(s): 
Heifetz, R.A., Laurie, D.L.
Publisher: 
Harvard Business Review
Date Published: 
December, 2001

The article is a prescriptive account describing how leaders can handle what many regard as their most important responsibility, the managing of change. Here referred to as “adaptive challenge”, this is perhaps a specific and crucial area of the change process. It is about the locus of responsibility shifting to the employees in a company where an adaptive change is required, and how the leader can help facilitate this.

Download a copy of The Work of Leadership (PDF, 220 KB).

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Program Planning and Implementation: 
  • Leadership
  • Systems Change

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