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It is about the practices leaders use to transform values into actions, visions into realities, obstacles into innovations, separateness into solidarity and. Within the book, kouzes and posner identify five principles along with ten leadership commitments that make an individual a great leader. Kouzes is deans executive professor of leadership, leavey school of business, santa clara university barry z. The first step to earning that trust is to trust your constituents. The most trusted source of leadership wisdom, updated to address todays realities the leadership challenge is the goldstandard manual for effective leadership, grounded in research and written by the premier authorities in the field. Twentyfive years after it was first written, it remains the best guide to leadership success, and in a time of global competition and economic uncer. The leadership challenge gives everyone the toolsincluding the lpi. Updated with a new global perspective and new research, it is the ultimate. Aug 23, 2002 when it was initially written in 1987, few could have predicted that the leadership challenge would become one of the bestselling leadership books of all time. In twentyfirst century, leadership is a kind of positive interaction. The book has sold more than 2 million copies and translated into 20 languages. Kouzes, 9780470651728, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. The leadership challenge, by james kouzes and barry posner, was the book we read and studied as part of this class. Kouzes and posner skillfully weave real examples and actual words of ordinary people achieving extraordinary things in their organizations throughout to support decades of empirical data.
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