The Leadership Challenge: How to Keep Getting Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations - Softcover

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JAMES M. KOUZES is chairman of the Tom Peters Group/Learning Systems, which makes leadership work through practical, performance-oriented learning programs, including the Leadership Challenge Workshop and Leadership Is Everyone's Business. In 1993 the Wall Street Journal cited him as one of the twelve most requested "nonuniversity executive-education providers" to U.S. companies. BARRY Z. POSNER, Ph.D, is dean of the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, and professor of organizational behavior. He has received several outstanding teaching and leadership awards, has published more than eighty research and practitioner-oriented articles, and currently is on the editorial review boards for the Journal of Management Education, the Journal of Management Inquiry, and the Journal of Business Ethics. He also serves on the board of directors for Public Allies-Silicon Valley and for the Center for Excellence in Nonprofits.

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Nearly a decade after their first best-selling exploration of what leaders actually do, leadership experts and teachers Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner find an even more urgent need for solid leadership skills. Drawing on a wealth of new data, they offer up-to-the-minute insights into the organizational challenges inherent in our climate of dizzying change.

Creating a research base of 60,000 leaders and constituents, Kouzes and Posner surveyed people at all organizational levels in a variety of public and private organizations around the world. In so doing, they discovered recurring patterns of success and distilled a solid set of practical, concrete concepts and behaviors. The extraordinary results achieved by the ordinary people who apply these fundamental leadership skills underscore the fact that opportunities for leadership are available to all of us every day, and that even in a world of shrinking workforces, rising cynicism, and rapid-fire technological change, the only limits are the limits we place on ourselves.

With fad-free clarity and insight, Kouzes and Posner zero in on the basics: five fundamental practices of leadership, ten commitments these practices embody, and the day-to-day action steps each commitment entails. Sharing dozens of fascinating case studies that illuminate these concepts in real-world action, they create an invaluable handbook for continuous improvement and a realistic blueprint for meeting the leadership challenge in any enterprise.