The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations
By James M. KOUZES and Barry Z. Posner
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For more than 25 years, The Leadership Challenge has been the most trusted source on becoming a better leader, selling more than 2 million copies in over 20 languages since its first publication. Based on Kouzes and Posner's extensive research, this all-new edition casts their enduring work in context for today's world, proving how leadership is a relationship that must be nurtured, and most importantly, that it can be learned.
- Features over 100 all-new case studies and examples, which show The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership in action around the world
- Focuses on the toughest organizational challenges leaders face today
- Addresses changes in how people work and what people want from their work
An indispensable resource for leaders at all levels, this anniversary edition is a landmark update and must-read.
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Reviews for The Leadership Challenge
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book has reached classic status, and I can see why. It explains a simple framework of five essential components for motivating and inspiring others. The five make sense and are simple enough to quickly memorize. Within these there are ten sub-components and then a further breakdown of key principles. The examples, while meaningful and instructive, get dry for me. In fairness, it may be that, having already been through a class and the accompanying workbook, I'm already at a different learning stage. While the text itself kept my rating at a 3, the concepts are invaluable and I'd recommend it (and will reference it again myself).
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I'm not a fan of alludes and Posner...most of what I've read of theirs is several times longer than necessary - as if they felt a need to justify their position by adding in more anecdotes than normal. This was required reading for a year long management round table and while it does have value, I found less value than most probably would. Much of what they try to convey is intuitively obvious to me, and a I see pretty much daily that heir theories are not intuitively obvious to others, so I acknowledge that they do fill a need, but as with their other books that I've read, this is 8-10 times longer than it needs to be. Make your points, use concise language to convey the supporting evidence, illustrate with maybe one anecdote, and recap. If you never read another leadership book, well, read another leadership book. They each claim to have the key to making things happen and they all probably have some merit, but the real leader takes from multiple sources and synthesizes a package that works for him/her.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Used this book wihtin a year long leadrehsip course I took wihtin my county. I enjoyed the many case studies and stories that connected the main points of the book and found it an enjoyable read.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It's about being a leader, and becoming a better leader, and while I usually recoil at business models of leadership, this book is fantastic
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great material, struggled with their writing style.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5James Kouzes and Barry Posner, throughout "The Leadership Challenge," effectively document the obvious and important influences leaders have on those around them. Their “Five Practices and Ten Commitments of Leadership” include reminders that leaders “model the way,” “inspire a shared vision,” “challenge the process,” “enable others to act,” and “encourage the heart,” and their suggested commitments include one to “set the example by aligning actions with shared values” —ideas that we all too often set aside as we’re dealing with the varied and conflicting directives coming our way. Furthermore, citing the extensive research they have completed, they remind us of the tremendous influence leaders have: ‘If you’re a manager in an organization, to your direct reports you are the most important leader in your organization…The leaders who have the most influence on people are those who are the closest to them,” they write. “You have to challenge the myth that leadership is about position and power…” The book has a well deserved reputation as must-read material for leaders and anyone interested in leadership, and provides inspiration for those of us involved in workplace learning and performance (training) since so much of what we do helps develop leadership skills among those we serve.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The best part of this detailed look at leadership in the workplace is its focus on respect of individuals and acknowledgement of the power of teams. Viewing leaders as ones who “enable others to act not by hoarding the power they have but by giving it away,” is critical to the book’s thrust, resulting in advice on how to reward individuals and teams and not only encouraging but actually empowering people to “become heroes.” The authors even conclude that love should be a guiding principle (though this is in part warped by their inclusion of love of product).What the authors don’t love, however, is wisdom. “How to” advice often encourages leaders to appeal to people’s hopes, dreams, and future visions, while apparently not needing to appeal to the reality of the way the world actually works. Consequently, it’s not surprising than, that that they conclude that because their vast survey showed that leaders don’t want to keep things unchanged, effective leaders must therefore pioneer new things. Apparently, historical leaders who fought against “innovators” (who we now exalt as “early adopters”) were wrong-headed anomalies. C.S. Lewis is apt here: “The real job of every moral teacher [which is really what a leader is] is to keep on bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back and back to the bit in its lesson that it wants to shirk.” Constantly seeking to innovate and improve as the authors suggest, will only lead to a “dynamic workplace” where organizations that are “stable, orderly, and run like clockwork” are replaced by ones where employees are on shifting ground where they can’t consistently rely on an organizational structure that is permanent enough to ensure they will always be protected.