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The Leadership Challenge – James Kouzes, Barry Posner
Non-fiction / 21st June 2021

Introduction The Leadership Challenge is a book on leadership. I read the fourth edition but the latest version is the sixth edition. This book is about how to turn challenging opportunities into remarkable successes. It aims to help the readers to develop the capacity to guide others to places they have never been before. Authors James Kouzes is the Dean’s Executive Professor of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University. He is a Fellow of the Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University. He is acknowledged as one of the twelve best executive educators in the US by The Wall Street Journal. Barry Posner is the Accolti Endowed Professor of Leadership at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University. He has been named as one of the nation’s top management and leadership educators by the International Management Council, recognized as one of the Top 50 leadership coaches in America, ranked among the Most Influential HR thinkers in the world by HR magazine, and listed among the Top 75 Leadership and Management Experts in the world by Inc. magazine. Contents The Leadership Challenge has a preface (Getting Extraordinary Things Done in Organization) and 13 chapters. The chapters are grouped into 7 parts….