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The Leadership Challenge, 4th Edition (精装)
by Jim Kouzes, Barry Posner
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Leadership, Organization, Management |
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David S. Pottruck (President & CEO, The Charles Schwab Corporation), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
This book is one of the very best on the topic of leadership, offering extraordinary stories from leaders at various ages and stages of their lives. Whether you’re now in a leadership role and want to further strengthen and hone your skills, or you simply have the desire to learn to make a difference and help guide your company - or even friends and family members - to higher levels of success, you’ll benefit by reading The Leadership Challenge. |
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Warren Bennis (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
The first edition was seminal and totally original. It became a modern classic on leadership practically overnight. With this new edition, with new cases and concepts and action steps that are even riper and more important, Kouzes and Posner go way beyond their earlier work and have made yet another brilliant contribution to leadership studies. This new book, a product of an unusual collaboration, is essential reading for everyone involved or concerned with leading. |
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Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Harvard Business School), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
From the ten commitments of leadership to the emphasis on actions and relationships, this valuable book is full of enduring wisdom and practical insights essential for success in challenging times. |
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John C. Maxwell (Author of author, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
For twenty-five years I have written about and taught leadership. The Leadership Challenge is one of the five best books I have ever read. I continually recommend it to others. |
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Publishers Weekly (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
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. |
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Jeff Reece (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
The Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and Posner remains one of the best leadership books in circulation today. The one thing that I love about all of Kouzes and Posner's books is that the principles that they espouse can be broken down into a number of practices and are thus made easier to remember. For instance, in this book, the Leadership Challenge I remember the five practices of leadership through the Acronym MICEE as in (1) Model the Way (2) Inspire a Shared Vision (3) Challenge the Process (4) Enable others to act and (5) Encourage the heart. These are practical principles that all leaders can live by. If you don't have it, get it, you won't regret it. |
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Gerardo Cruz (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
This is one of the best books I have read. The authors manage to define the 'leadership challenge' in a very practical way. They provide us a leadership model that is not based on power. It is based on the tools that leaders use to make people get involved in accomplishing institutional goals (or make extraordinary things happen, as the authors call it). While the language in the book is very easy to understand, arguments are supported by real-life examples of how leaders helped their organizations to overcome crisis situations. Some of those stories are very impressive and inspiring. Kouzes & Posner propose that leaders must recognize that knowledge is distributed in all levels of the organization and, in order to make the organization benefit from that knowledge (talents, ideas etc.), people must be empowered. It is not a matter of making people feel they are part of an organization. It is a matter of making people part of it. The book is written in a very contemporary context and I believe that any person considering a leadership position must read it. |
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John Swank (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
The Leadership Challenge is a guide for leaders of all types of organizations, including mine which is a law enforcement agency. The title clearly is an outline of the book as Kouzes and Posner explain in detail that while leadership is challenging, it is also rewarding, and they clearly and concisely provide the reader with the skills necessary to meet "The Leadership Challenge."
Kouzes and Posner provide an outline for effective leadership with their Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership. The practices suggested are: (1)Model the Way by setting examples and planning small wins (2) Inspire a Shared Vision by envisioning the future and enlisting others to see your vision. (3)Challenge the Process by searching for opportunities, experimenting and taking risks (4), Enable Others to Act by fostering collaboration and strengthening others (5) Encourage the Heart by recognizing individual contributions and celebrating accomplishments. The substance of the book could be summarized into these Five Practices. In fact, the entire book could be condensed into a pocket version for managers/leaders to refer to.
More than being a self help book, The Leadership Challenge is a reference book and motivational book. The book inspired me to want to be a leader and adopt those traits that effective leaders possess. The authors list the most desired qualities of a leader from data collected from over two decades of research and found the top four to be honesty, forward looking, competent, and inspiring. The research showed that for people to follow willingly, the leader must possess these traits. Kouzes and Posner address each of their characteristics in the book and provide the reader with instruction of how to be this type of person. They also offer examples of various individuals in leadership positions who faced adversity and were able to successfully overcome it. In fact, the authors note that leaders see adversity as an opportunity to teach and learn.
Finally, I found that The Leadership Challenge not only showed you how to lead others, but also how to lead yourself.
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Maxim Mathiutin (MSL quote), Republic of Moldova
<2006-12-27 00:00>
I've just re-read this brilliant book and decided keep it close and periodically review it. It is a collection of ready recipes that you might have known about, but not always apply to practice. Each recipe usually contains one or two small case vignettes.
I can call this book "the encyclopedia of leadership" - the items cover almost the entire area leadership, and the items are small enough to review them quickly.
The drawback of this title is that it doesn't seem to cover problems and tough issues of leadership that always arise. To fill this gap, I can recommend the unique framework by Ronald Heifetz described in the books "Leadership Without Easy Answers" and "Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading".
When the authors look to the leader in context of the organization, the view is a little bit mechanistic: "focus on clear standards, set the goals to keep on track, etc". I do not complete share this mechanistic view. Of course, leaders are important, but I agree with Margaret J. Wheatley who says that organizations are living systems. They are like people, intelligent, creative, adaptive, self-organizing and meaning-seeking. The simpler way to organize human endeavor requires a belief that the world is inherently orderly. The world seeks organization. It doesn't need humans to organize it, it doesn't seem to share our desires for efficiency or neatness, it uses redundancy, fuzziness, dense webs of relationships, and unending trails and errors to find what works; life is intent on finding what works, not what's "right"; life creates more possibilities as it engages with opportunities; life is attracted to order. I can recommend the book "Leadership and the New Science" by Margaret J. Wheatley.
There are the other aspects of leadership that should be scrutinized in much greater detail, but they definitely exceed the size of the single book. "The Leadership Challenge" is an excellent work, but don't stop on it, keep reading the other leadership and self-development books. |
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Walter Bock (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
This book has been around in various editions for almost twenty years now. One reason for that is that it is an excellent overview of leadership in organizations and how you can do it yourself.
The book's structure follows its basic recommendations. The authors recommend five fundamental practices, each of which has two commandments, for a total of ten. In general, these are both straightforward and insightful. "Challenge the Process" talks about searching for opportunities, experimenting, and taking risks. "Modeling the Way" talks about setting the example and planning small wins. There is also material on "Enabling Others to Act."
Then there are a couple of weaker sections. Sections on inspiring and encouraging simply are too fluffy and lack the support that is given to other points.
Even having said that, this is a book that's worth reading if you are responsible for leadership in an organization of any size. The reason is the way the book came together.
The authors used two different kinds of research to develop their recommendations. They looked at over five hundred leaders, but they looked at them in a particular way.
In each case, they had asked the leader to talk about his or her actions as a leader when they were doing excellent work. In other words, they looked for excellent examples of leadership and tried to draw lessons from them.
They also went to the other side and talked to followers about what they wanted in leaders. When they put those two kinds of research together, you get recommendations that are both practical and, for the most part, behavioral.
Warren Bennis' recent book, Geeks and Geezers, is an excellent companion for this book. In that book, Bennis talks about crucibles of leadership or experiences, which provide intense stress and learning of leadership that form leadership values.
On the plus side this is good, practical, behavioral and helpful if you're responsible for a group of any kind or size. On the downside, some of the language can be fuzzy and simplistic, and some of the concepts, like "Encourage the Heart" sounds just a tad too New Age for my taste.
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