Ronald Heifetz Founding Director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University

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Ronald Heifetz founded the Center for Public Leadership and is the King Hussein bin Talal Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School.

I have only recently discovered Ron Heifetz and learned that his views on leadership are remarkably similar to my own.

Leadership is a practice, not a position of authority | Ronald Heifetz (source)


We own collective responsibility for the global conditions that we impact and that impact us.

We will not make these changes based on authority-based leadership, but rather with each of us taking a leadership role.

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We own collective responsibility for the world | Ronald Heifetz

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