The Leadership Challenge, 4th Edition (平装)
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品牌: James M. KouzesBarry Z. Posner
基本信息出版社:Jossey-Bass (2008年8月4日)外文书名:领导挑战丛书名:J-B Leadership Challenge: Kouzes/Posner平装:416页正文语种:英语ISBN:0787984922条形码:9780787984922产品尺寸及重量:22.4 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm ; 499 gASIN:0787984922商品描述内容简介在线阅读本书
The most trusted resource on becoming a leader is now updated and revised for a new generation.This leadership classic continues to be a bestseller after three editions and twenty years in print. It is the gold standard for research–based leadership, and the premier resource on becoming a leader. This new edition, with streamlined text, more international and business examples, and a graphic redesign, is more readable and accessible than ever before.
The Leadership Challenge, Fourth Edition, has been extensively updated with the latest research and case studies, and offers inspiring new stories of real people achieving extraordinary results. The authors′ central theme remains the same and is more relevant today than ever: "Leadership is Everyone’s Business." Their "five practices" and "ten commitments" have been proven by hundreds of thousands of dedicated, successful leaders. This edition, with almost one–third new material, emphasizes the global community and refocuses on business leaders.编辑推荐Amazon.com Review
In the 1980s and again in the '90s, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner publishedThe Leadership Challengeto address issues they uncovered in research on ordinary people achieving "individual leadership standards of excellence." The keys they identified--model the way, inspire a shared vision, challenge the process, enable others to act, encourage the heart--have now been reexamined in the context of the post-millennium world and updated in a third edition. "What we have discovered, and rediscovered, is that leadership is not the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women," write Kouzes, chairman emeritus of the Tom Peters Company, and Posner, dean of the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. "People make extraordinary things happen by liberating the leader within everyone." After explaining their concept and methodology, the authors detail the five essentials noted above in a pair of chapters apiece that bring clarity to their theories with case studies and recommended actions. The specificity of each (motivating through "the meaningfulness of the challenge, not the material rewards of success," for example, and being able to "accept the mistakes that result from experimentation") is enhanced by advice on sustaining the commitment and making leadership skills accessible to all. The results remain as relevant as when they were first published.--Howard Rothman--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
From Publishers Weekly
An inspirational and practical handbook, this expanded revision of a bestselling manual originally published in 1987 offers sound advice to corporate leaders and entrepreneurs, to managers and employees and to aspiring leaders in retail, manufacturing, government, community, church and school settings. Drawing on interviews and a questionnaire survey of more than 3000 leaders, the authors identify five fundamental practices of exemplary leadership: challenge the status quo; inspire a shared vision; enable others to act; model the way forward by setting an example; tap individuals' inner drives by linking rewards and performance. Kouzes, chairman and CEO of TPG/Learning Systems, and Posner, managing partner of Santa Clara University's Executive Development Center in California, write insightful, down-to-earth, jargon-free prose. This new edition has been substantially updated to reflect the challenges of shrinking work forces, rising cynicism and expanded telecommunications. An appendix includes the author's Leadership Practices Inventory, a tool for assessing leadership behavior. 75,000 first printing; Executive Program Book Club main selection; author tour.
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"The management classic," ("Financial Times," Tuesday 11th September 2007)"After 20 years in print, this key publication has undergone a substantial revision for its fourth edition." ("People Management," Thursday 1st November 2007)"After three editions and 20 years in print, this leadership classic continues to be the premier resource on becoming a leader." ("Securities & Investment Review," November 2007)
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"Leadership books are a dime a dozen and most don't last a week let alone years.The Leadership Challengehas lasted because it is research based, it is practical, and it has heart! Believe me&they have hard evidence for what we usually think of as a soft topic. This book especially shines when ordinary folks can take these practices and work them into our lives on a moment-by-moment basis. Both authors are leaders in their own right, which doesn't hurt a bit. Why offer a new revision? Practically speaking, Jim and Barry have piles of new data to share, new real life examples to tell, and updates given the wild and crazy new economy." --Tom Peters, management guru, founder and chairman, Tom Peters Company and author,In Search of Excellence"Based upon evidence collected from around the world and over decades,The Leadership Challengeprovides practical guidance on how to lead and inspiration to make the effort." --Jeffrey Pfeffer, professor, Stanford Business School and author,The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First. "Kouzes and Posner are correct-leadership hasn't changed, but the context in which leaders operate has shifted dramatically. And that makes all the difference, as the two authors who have conducted perhaps the most important research on leadership describe in eloquent language and instructive case studies. If you read their first book, it's time to go back to the classroom and place your knowledge about leadership in a new context. If you didn't read the first edition, reading this book may be the most important thing you do this year to develop yourself as a leader!" --Janelle Barlow, president, TMI, US and co-author,A Complaint Is A Gift, Emotional Value,andSmart Videoconferencing"Kouzes and Posner have written a book of reaffirmation. They have reaffirmed&with scholarship, stories, and their own ability to express ideas clearly&what it takes to lead. They return again and again to the essential qualities and values that enable one person to influence others&the capacity to reach and touch one another as caring, compassionate human beings." --David Lawrence, MD, chair/CEO, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc."Kouzes and Posner give us breadth and depth with real world examples of everyday leadership from everyday people who are meeting the extraordinary challenges of our time. A book of exceptional, real-world insight on what it takes to be a leader in our most complex and challenging times." --Regis McKenna, chairman, The McKenna Group and author,Total Access"The Leadership Challengehas been my primary leadership text since 1988. It is the blue print for getting others to want to do what we are convinced needs to be done and is required reading for anyone who aspires to be a next-generation leader." — Andy Stanley, founding pastor, North Point Community Church"In The Leadership Challenge, chairs, deans, and provosts will find inspiration as well as practical suggestions that fit well with the difficult situations with which leaders in the academy struggle." --Ann Lucas, professor of Organization Development, Fairleigh Dickinson University, and author of Strengthening Departmental Leadership and Leading Academic Change--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
