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The historian Andrew Roberts reminds us that, although the most common understanding of ‘leadership’ connotes inherent goodness, leadership ‘is in fact completely morally neutral, as capable of leading mankind to the abyss as to the sunlit uplands. It is a protean force of terrifying power’ that we must strive to orient toward moral ends.[14]
Henry Kissinger • Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
Orchestrate the conflict. Starkly but evenhandedly, articulate the competing claims and positions you are hearing. As people begin to appreciate how deeply held the competing values are and how committed each faction is to avoiding taking any losses, the tension will rise.
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
STRATEGIES FOR AN “ACCIDENTAL ADVERSARIES” SITUATION Don’t push on the well-intended fix or solution which applies to your own part of the organization. Instead, seek to strengthen your understanding of your partner’s fundamental needs, how you are…
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Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
"I am a legend," he told a group of foreign investors at a dinner speech in March 2001 shortly before his appointment to head the Economy Ministry. The power of his intellect, his incorruptibility, and the sincerity of his desire for his country's well-being were undeniable; the only question was whether he had a sense of proportion about
... See morePaul Blustein • And the Money Kept Rolling in (And Out): Wall Street, the Imf, And the Bankrupting of Argentina: Wall Street, the IMF and the Bankrupting of Argentina
The challenge of globalization from the earliest days of humanity has been the lack of consensus. Our species, exquisitely evolved for cooperation within our clan, is equally primed for conflict with the “other.” In a world that has the ability to “end all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life,” as President John F. Kennedy eloquently
... See moreJeffrey D. Sachs • The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
Reentry, as the term is used in conflict resolution, refers to helping someone who has gone through an intense experience within the bubble of a dialogue return to their original context.
Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
As president-elect he recruited a cabinet of frustrated first lovers or, as the historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has called it, a “team of rivals.” They included his major competitors at Chicago—the indignantly disappointed Seward as secretary of state, the transparently ambitious Salmon P. Chase of Ohio as treasury secretary, the corrupt but politic
... See moreJohn Lewis Gaddis • On Grand Strategy
Adaptive challenges are typically grounded in the complexity of values, beliefs, and loyalties rather than technical complexity and stir up intense emotions rather than dispassionate analysis.
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
Facilitating Breakthrough: How to Remove Obstacles, Bridge Differences, and Move Forward Together
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