Dance Floor Balcony

Get off the dance floor daily operations and up on the balcony.

Dance floor balcony.

For the past twenty years he has generated critical works that have influenced leadership theory in every domain. Leading from the floor helps you understand systems with an upfront view but getting up in the balcony allows you to watch how those systems. To use our metaphor you have to move back and forth from the balcony to the dance floor over and over again especially when managing change we need to fluidly move from participant to observer. Kennedy school of government.

As a leader both the dance floor and the balcony are equally important. The dance floor and the balcony ronald heifetz is the king hussein bin talal senior lecturer in public leadership at harvard university s john f. In their fine book leadership on the line authors ron heifetz and marty linsky offer a practical and wise solution.