A Leader's Legacy
J-B Leadership Challenge: Kouzes/Posner
1. Auflage August 2006
208 Seiten, Hardcover
Handbuch/Nachschlagewerk
Kurzbeschreibung
Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, internationally recognized experts in the field of leadership and authors of the bestselling Leadership Challenge, explore the important notion of legacy and the critical questions any leader must ask him or herself in order to leave a lasting impact. In a series of 22 short essays, grouped into four parts: significance, relationships, aspirations, and courage, the authors explore the thorny and often ambiguous issues that today's leaders grapple with including why: leaders serve and sacrifice, we all need loving critics, you can't take trust for granted, failure is always an option, you can liberate the leader in everyone, and, ultimately, how the legacy you leave is the life you lead. In what is their most personal work to date, Kouzes and Posner zero in on the core challenges leaders face and offer up a thoughtful and reassuring perspective any leader, or aspiring leader, will learn from and enjoy.
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
Part One: Significance.
1 Leaders Serve and Sacrifice.
2 The Best Leaders Are Teachers.
3 We All Need Loving Critics.
4 You Are the Most Important Leader in Your Organization.
5 No One Likes to Be an Assumption.
Part Two: Relationships.
6 Leadership Is Personal.
7 Leaders Should Want to Be Liked.
8 When You Don't See Eye to Eye, Seek toUnderstand.
9 You Can't Take Trust for Granted.
10 Let Your People Go.
Part Three: Aspirations.
11 Lead from the Inside Out.
12 Forward-Looking Is a Leadership Prerequisite.
13 It's Not Just the Leader's Vision.
14 Liberate the Leader in Everyone.
15 Leaders Are Followers, Too!
Part Four: Courage.
16 There's Courage in All of Us.
17 You Can't Plan to Be Courageous, But You Can Choose It.
18 It Takes Courage to Make a Life.
19 The Courage to Be Human.
20 Failure Is Always an Option.
21 No Money-Back Guarantee.
Afterword: The Legacy You Leave Is the Life You Lead.
Notes.
Acknowledgments.
About the Authors.
Index.
Barry Posner is dean of the Leavey School of Business and professor of leadership at Santa Clara University.
Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner are authors of the award-winning and best-selling book The Leadership Challenge, as well as the widely used Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI).