For the past four decades, Harvard Kennedy School lecturer Ronald A. Heifetz has been the face of the school’s widely popular classes on leadership. But this year, Heifetz will no longer be teaching ...

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Ronald Heifetz founded Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership where he is the King Hussein bin Talal Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. He speaks extensively and ...

Leadership is a high-risk enterprise and failure sometimes comes with the territory. People lead sometimes and "nobody leads all the time." Most people see "leadership as the good stuff" but are less ...

Followers want comfort, stability, and solutions from their leaders. But that’s babysitting. Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones. Then they manage the resulting ...