Abstract
To lead is to live dangerously because when leadership counts, when you lead people through difficult change, you challenge what people hold dear—their daily habits, tools, loyalties, and ways of thinking—with nothing more to offer perhaps than a possibility. …And people resist in all kinds of creative and unexpected ways that can get you taken out of the game: pushed aside, undermined, or eliminated. 1 Heifetz R Linsky M Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leadership. Harvard Business School, Boston, MA2002 Google Scholar To lead is to live dangerously because when leadership counts, when you lead people through difficult change, you challenge what people hold dear—their daily habits, tools, loyalties, and ways of thinking—with nothing more to offer perhaps than a possibility. …And people resist in all kinds of creative and unexpected ways that can get you taken out of the game: pushed aside, undermined, or eliminated. 1 Heifetz R Linsky M Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leadership. Harvard Business School, Boston, MA2002 Google Scholar
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