James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner

A Leader's Legacy

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Produktbeschreibung

What Leaders Are Saying About A Leader's Legacy

"Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner have done it again! In a brilliant follow-up to The Leadership Challenge, they offer the combined wisdom of decades of studying and working with leaders. In 22 thoughtful essays they summarize with depth and clarity what is really important for you as a leader: your courage, your relationships, and the legacy you leave behind."
--Bill George, former chairman and CEO, Medtronic; author, Authentic Leadership

"This superb book defies conventional wisdom in favor of being truly wise. In chapters such as 'Leaders Should Want to Be Liked' and 'Failure Is Always an Option,' Kouzes and Posner portray leaders on a human scale, opening leadership to anyone who is willing to be fully human. That, of course, is a challenge! And yet the style of this book--with its stories of well-grounded leaders and its engaging conversational prose--encourages the reader to live into and up to that challenge. A Leader's Legacy will surely become key to the literary legacy that its authors have been leaving in their wake over the past twenty-five years."
--Parker J. Palmer, author, The Courage to Teach, A Hidden Wholeness, and Let Your Life Speak

"In their new book, Kouzes and Posner provide a badly needed supplement to all those other books on leadership. First, they don't just say that everyone can be a leader--that oft-repeated bromide is little more than a cliché now. They demonstrate (with good examples) how true and important the idea is. And second (again with effective examples) they make 'leadership' something that will interest not just 'organizational' types but anyone who hopes to make a difference in the world."
--William Bridges, author, Transitions and Managing Transition

"A Leader's Legacy is an indispensable daily reference for leaders at every level of every enterprise. Legacy is a gift to leaders of today, to leaders of the future."
--Frances Hesselbein, chairman, Leader to Leader Institute

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Produktdetails

• J-B Leadership Challenge: Kouzes/Posner
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 149mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9780787982966
• ISBN-10: 0787982962
• Artikelnr.: 20895530

Autorenporträt

JIM KOUZES is an Executive Fellow at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University. BARRY POSNER is dean of the Leavey School of Business and professor of leadership at Santa Clara University. Together, they are the authors of the award-winning and bestselling book The Leadership Challenge, as well as the widely used Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI).

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

" ...an often emotional but compelling book...offers a thoughtful and reassuring perspective that any leader or aspiring leader can use..." (Business Executive , June 2007)