Ronald A. Heifetz Quotes

Your inspiration taps hidden reserves of promise that sustain people through times that induce despair. You enable people to envision a future that sustains the best from their past while also holding out new possibilities.

~ Ronald A. Heifetz

Exercising leadership is an expression of your aliveness... But when you cover yourself up, you risk losing something as well. In the struggle to save yourself, you can give up too many of those qualities that are the essence of being alive, like innocence, curiosity, and compassion.

~ Ronald A. Heifetz

What people resist is not change per se, but loss.

~ Ronald A. Heifetz

If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.

~ Ronald A. Heifetz

Your silence creates a vacuum for others to fill The key is to stay present and keep listening. The silence of holding steady is different from the silence of holding back.

~ Ronald A. Heifetz

Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.

~ Ronald A. Heifetz

The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.

~ Ronald A. Heifetz

Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.

~ Ronald A. Heifetz

Worry not that your child listens to you, worry most that they watch you.

~ Ronald A. Heifetz