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Book SynopsisUncover the latest developments in leadership development and coaching with insights from two of the most respected voices on the subject
In this provocative book, leadership experts and authors of the best-selling The Leadership Challenge, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner take on a unique challenge and explore questions of leadership and legacy. In 22 stand-alone chapters, Kouzes and Posner examine the critical questions all leaders must ask themselves before they can leave a lasting impact.
These powerful essays are grouped into four categories: Significance, Relationships, Aspirations, and Courage. In each essay the authors consider a thorny and often ambiguous issue with which today's leaders must grapplesuch as how leaders serve and sacrifice, why leaders need loving critics, why leaders should want to be liked, why leaders can''t take trust for granted, why it's not just the leader's vision that matters, why failure is always an option, why it takes cour
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" …an often emotional but compelling book…offers a thoughtful and reassuring perspective that any leader or aspiring leader can use…" (Business Executive, June 2007)
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part one Significance 9
1 Leaders Serve and Sacrifice 12
2 The Best Leaders Are Teachers 20
3 We All Need Loving Critics 27
4 You Are the Most Important Leader in Your Organization 33
5 No One Likes to Be an Assumption 40
Part two Relationships 47
6 Leadership Is Personal 50
7 Leaders Should Want to Be Liked 56
8 When You Don’t See Eye to Eye, Seek to Understand 62
9 You Can’t Take Trust for Granted 71
10 Let Your People Go 79
Part three Aspirations 89
11 Lead from the Inside Out 92
12 Forward-Looking Is a Leadership Prerequisite 99
13 It’s Not Just the Leader’s Vision 107
14 Liberate the Leader in Everyone 114
15 Leaders Are Followers, Too! 122
Part four Courage 131
16 There’s Courage in All of Us 134
17 You Can’t Plan to Be Courageous, But You Can Choose It 141
18 It Takes Courage to Make a Life 148
19 The Courage to Be Human 155
20 Failure Is Always an Option 163
21 No Money-Back Guarantee 170
Afterword: The Legacy You Leave Is the Life You Lead 177
Notes 183
Acknowledgments 187
About the Authors 191
Index 195
