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Leadership Without Easy Answers
Heifetz, Ronald A. Leadership Without Easy Answers. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994.
Why this matters here
Heifetz’s Leadership Without Easy Answers distinguishes technical problems from adaptive work and treats leadership as mobilizing people to face hard tradeoffs rather than only issuing answers from authority. When Authority Outlives Accountability draws on that frame for how responsibility thins as authority spreads across people, roles, and time—harm accumulating through defensible steps. Heifetz theorizes adaptive leadership; the book’s inference is about moral failure entering through accumulation, not only through cruelty.
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