Get off the dance floor daily operations and up on the balcony managers.
Move off the dance floor and onto the balcony quote.
When you are on the balcony you are temporarily removed from the dance and with a new perspective you can see patterns in the dance that were previously unnoticed.
You examine your actions in relation to your intentions as if from.
One of the metaphors he shared was of the view from the balcony and the view from the dance floor.
And if this concept of dance floor and balconies are.
Heifetz r and linsky m.
This post will offer some activities to practice the skill.
So you need to be both among the dancers and up on the balcony.
In their fine book leadership on the line authors ron heifetz and marty linsky offer a practical and wise solution.
The challenge is to try to see the whole dance floor by going to the balcony in your mind to examine your life.
I tried to scour the internet to find out the origin of that metaphor and to the best of my.
If you want to affect what is happening you must return to the dance floor.
However little guidance is given about how to get onto the balcony.
Staying alive through the dangers of leading.
Heifetz founder of the center for public leadership school at the harvard kennedy school calls it getting off the dance floor and onto the balcony he says the only way you can gain.