A Leader's Legacy

ISBN: 0787982962

Author: Kouzes, James M.

Condition: New

Uncover the latest developments in leadership development and coaching with insights from two of the most respected voices on the subjectIn 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 todays leaders must grapple-such 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 its not just the leaders vision that matters, why failure is always an option, why it takes courage to make a life, how to liberate the leader in everyone, and ultimately, how the legacy you leave is the life you lead.In the book, youll find: A free-flowing discussion of leadership topics and lessons Incisive explorations of ambiguous issues and paradoxes that have bedeviled leaders for generations Concise and to-the-point essays representing new approaches to familiar themes, new stories, and new experiencesA Leaders Legacy is an indispensable resource for managers, executives, and other business leaders looking for insightful new ways to push their leadership development further than they ever thought possible.