The Balcony And The Dance Floor

The analogy used was when making decisions you need to know if you re on the balcony or on the dance floor.

The balcony and the dance floor. Staying alive through the dangers of leading the concept of dance floors and balconies is introduced as a metaphor for being tactical versus strategic. The balcony and the dance floor principle was first presented to me as i was just entering the workforce. He calls the first the view from the balcony the big picture looking down on the dance floor a position of height from which we can see everything and the second the view from the dance floor itself a grass roots perspective where we are aware of all the small details and the smaller individual challenges that have to be met on the. And now i want to share it with you.

Say i do then do it up right on the dance floor. Kennedy school of government. For the past twenty years he has generated critical works that have influenced leadership theory in every domain. Your splendid sacred ceremony will unfurl in the same convenient climate controlled location as your glamorous reception.

Get off the dance floor daily operations and up on the balcony. In leadership on the line. Dance floor versus on the balcony. Feast on love then raise a.

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. That means getting back out on the dance floor and using what you ve observed out on the balcony. As i was right in the middle of the nightclub phase of my life it stuck with me. One must develop the ability to move back and forth as required from the balcony to the dance floor.

While today s plan may make sense now. Balcony ballroom 4738 utica st metairie la 70006 usa 504. Talk to people at all levels not just managers and executives. Getting back out on the dance floor holding a range of perspectives is necessary but not sufficient.

To use our metaphor you have to move back and forth from the balcony to the dance floor over and over again throughout the days weeks months and years. In their fine book leadership on the line authors ron heifetz and marty linsky offer a practical and wise solution.