Leadership Without Easy Answers
by Ronald A. Heifetz
Heifetz separates technical problems, solvable by existing expertise, from adaptive challenges that require people to change values and habits. Covers regulating distress, giving the work back to the group, and exercising leadership with or without formal authority.
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