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Leadership on the Line, With a New Preface: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Change Hardcover – Illustrated, July 11 2017

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The dangerous work of leading change--somebody has to do it. Will you put yourself on the line?

To lead is to live dangerously. It's romantic and exciting to think of leadership as all inspiration, decisive action, and rich rewards, but leading requires taking risks that can jeopardize your career and your personal life. It requires putting yourself on the line, disrupting the status quo, and surfacing hidden conflict. And when people resist and push back, there's a strong temptation to play it safe. Those who choose to lead plunge in, take the risks, and sometimes get burned. But it doesn't have to be that way say renowned leadership experts Ronald Heifetz and Marty Linsky. In Leadership on the Line, they show how it's possible to make a difference without getting "taken out" or pushed aside. They present everyday tools that give equal weight to the dangerous work of leading change and the critical importance of personal survival. Through vivid stories from all walks of life, the authors present straightforward strategies for navigating the perilous straits of leadership. Whether you're a parent or a politician, a CEO or a community activist, this practical book shows how you can exercise leadership and survive and thrive to enjoy the fruits of your labor.

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Ronald Heifetz is a cofounder of the international leadership and consulting practice Cambridge Leadership Associates (CLA) and the founding director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is renowned worldwide for his innovative work on the practice and teaching of leadership. Marty Linsky is a cofounder of CLA and has taught at the Kennedy School for more than twenty-five years.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvard Business Review Press; Revised edition (July 11 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1633692833
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1633692831
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 499 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.88 x 2.54 x 24.13 cm

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Catherine J.

Should be a classic in the genre

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 1, 2021

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Listened to this on the Libby app and decided I needed my own hard copy. Excellent, thoughtful and evidence-based advice.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 10, 2021

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I loved this book, easy to read packed full of good insight. Well done!!!!

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Techy Manager

No good framework. Mostly a long list of leadership examples

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 13, 2020

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The book's goal is to provide a framework on how to safely and adaptively influence an organisation or a work environment. However, I did not like the structure and approach of it.

Leadership on the line is a long list of examples on where leadership has gone well and where it failed, extracted from various other sources that are listed in th and notes section. 80% of the book are the details of the examples while 20% are reflections on them.

Each chapter has a metaphoric name such as "Get on the balcony", "The faces of danger", "Sacred heart", which makes it difficult to reference after reading or know what exactly this chapter is about. "Manager your hungers" for example talks about how human hunger for power can lead to bad outcomes and then later talks about the hunger for intimacy with the example being Bill Clinton's scandal. The framework for solving thid problem is proposed as "Rekindle the sparks" as in satisfy your hungers elsewhere and not at work...

After reading through the 200 pages the framework is not clear, the approach is not clear, and all of these bad examples can be read in articles from the harvard business review.

The key things that I got from the book are:
1. Learn how to deal with politics (without details on how or what framework to use besides keep your detractors close or replace them)
2. Don't try to do everything yourself
3. Figure out how to speak your mind at the right time

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Leadership is Dangerous

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If you are thinking about becoming a leader then read this book. Leadership is dangerous and taking on a problem, and leading change, can result in you being singled out, isolated, and eventually sent packing. Trust me, it happens. Politics.

This book recognised that and provides good advice on how to survive. It's a good book.

Mani

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 2, 2022

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The book was used as a mug rested on it. It was also filthy with sneeze marks. Some of the pages were stuck together as if someone picked the nose. Shocking and horrible. Other than that, it is a good read and good information

Laura

Overall a good summary of an interesting topic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 26, 2018

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An interesting read that covers many of the challenges of leading for change. This book does not focus on day-to-day management challenges, but rather the strategies of successfully making a substantial change happen in an organization or community. I liked the general naratives and ideas as they were outlined, but found the endless examples of this or that well-known figure making this or that mistake a bit tiring. In retrospect, we all know better, but I doubt the authors would have been able to provide such advice beforehand.

ian

a bit confused about this book

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on April 6, 2018

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I came to this book through recommendations in other book. It is very hard to find a quality management book so naturaly I was curious what to find in this one. My conclusion is that it is very tedious to read this page from cover to cover because it is such a strange mixture of insight and underestimation of a reader. Namely, on one side you find very interesting and clever sentences about leadership scattered through the book that are invaluable and truly worth reading. It happened to me when I was completely confused what is this book about, and then come to the sentence that was really very good and I started to read anew the whole chapter to find what I missed out. Over and over. On the other side book is so full of boring, boring stories of distant and famous people that serve as an underpining of an issue at hand, that you seriously wonder if authors knew what they were doing. I realy do not know why take world celebrities and black and white their stories as an examples that management principles in the book do work. My intuition is that authors simply could not find relevant cases because their academic career is simply ivory tower without real life (corporate) experiences. Face it you could never feel that from outside.
So, is it worth to buy this book. I think yes, but I recomend to skim through so called real examples and concentrate on parallel teoretical foundations that are at issue. There you would find very usable things that you could jump to to complement your professional path.

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