James M. Kouzes - The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations

Now in its sixth edition, The Leadership Challenge has stood the test of time for good reasonit's quite simply one of the best books you'll ever read on leadership. A must read!

Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The New One Minute Manager
and Leading at a Higher Level

How can a book celebrate its 30th anniversary and still remain relevant? Easy! It's because the authors never stop growing, learning from all the clients they work with, from all they read in the literature, and from one another. They continue to fill the pages of this book with the best stories, examples, and memorable lessons learned. This is the right resource for anyone just entering the leadership field, or for those who read the book three decades ago!

Beverly Kaye, founder, Career Systems International,
coauthor, Love 'Em or Lose 'Em, Help them Grow or Watch Them Go

Whether you are just beginning your leadership journey, or a seasoned CEO, or a professor of leadership, this timeless leadership classic needs to be within constant reach!

Harry Kraemer Jr., former chairman and CEO, Baxter International; professor of management and strategy, Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management

The Leadership Challenge is a book that not only serves your career but more importantly it is a tool for leading a better life. Jim and Barry have put together one of the greatest of leadership insights. Every leader should take advantage of the gift that is The Leadership Challenge.

Howard Behar, president (retired), Starbucks Coffee

I love The Leadership Challenge! This is the book on leadership that I recommend to all of my clients. The sixth edition provides the best of all worlds: 1. It contains the timeless wisdom that Jim and Barry have accumulated over more than 25 yearsit has been and continues to be a classic in our field. 2. It has been updated to reflect how their timeless leadership concepts can be best applied in today's ever-changing world.

Marshall Goldsmith, bestselling author of What Got You Here
Won't Get You There, MOJO, and Triggers

I've been a fanand followerof The Leadership Challenge for almost 25 years, and the principles are as relevant today as they have ever been. In this leadership classic, Kouzes and Posner have identified and brought to life invaluable practices that are as insightful as they are practical.

Patrick Lencioni, president, The Table Group;
bestselling author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
and The Advantage

No book has ever chronicled the practices of true leadership better than The Leadership Challenge, and this updated edition deftly outlines how to be a phenomenal leader in the 21st century.

Chip Conley, New York Times bestselling author of Emotional Equations,
and Airbnb Global Head of Hospitality and Strategy

The Leadership Challenge is a classic, insightful and compelling book. All leadership positions come with its own challenges, but not all leaders know how to navigate through them. If you are looking to excel as a leader, and you need digestible and partial advice: The Leadership Challenge by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner is the book for you. It will not only help you become a great a leader but it will help mobilize your people into getting extraordinary things done. Buy this book, read this book and live this book. Then buy this book for those who truly care about leadership.

Lolly Daskal, president and founder of Lead From Within,
author of The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You
and Your Greatness

If I could recommend only one of the tens of thousands of leadership books ever written, The Leadership Challenge would absolutely be my top choice, and by a wide margin. This sixth edition builds markedly on the last but remains characteristically Jim Kouzes and Barry Posnera complex work in its underlying character, but brilliant in its simplicity and practical in design. The Leadership Challenge is the most useful leadership book ever written; I have each and every edition, and each is better than the last.

Thomas A. Kolditz, PhD, director, Doerr Institute for New Leaders,
Rice University

The Leadership Challenge is more relevant now than ever. Jim and Barry continue to provide compelling evidence and examples of leadership that embodies our humanity and capacity to intimately collaborate with others. This book is important in sustaining our faith in the possibilities inherent in institutional life, no matter what chaos surrounds us at the moment. I highly recommend this book.

Peter Block, author of Flawless Consulting and The Empowered Manager

Kouzes and Posner did not invent leadership but sometimes it seems that way. As Alice Waters is to cooking, or Paul McCartney is to music, Kouzes and Posner have developed a discipline and an approach to leadership that sets them apart from all the others. With the sixth edition of The Leadership Challenge they not only update their research, they make it once again, come alive. The Leadership Challenge, 6th Edition, not only coaches us on how to make extraordinary things happen, the book is extraordinary.

Richard A. Moran, Ph.D., president, Menlo College and
author of The Thing About Work, Showing Up
and Other Important Matters

For over 25 years The Leadership Challenge has guided me to know myself and growing as a leader and achieving better resultsevery time! This new edition improves on an already extraordinary and time tested model by emphasizing the importance and value of engaging your team and those around you. In my business, being a better leader and growing new leaders means improving the health of people and their families. When nurses are more engaged and authentically supported, patients are healthier! The Leadership Challenge, with this contemporary update, enables me to improve the health of patients, their families and the communities that we serve. With so many leadership books out there this is truly the ONLY one that you need.

Lori Armstrong, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, chief nurse executive,
Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center

What appeals to me most about The Leadership Challenge, Sixth Edition is sheer enthusiasm for the art and the practice of leadership. The art of leadership involves bringing people together for common cause. The practice of leadership requires commitment to action for the common good. Both are easy to address, but hard to implement. In this wonderful new edition, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner provide real-world adviceunderscored with solid researchthat points us in the right direction. Good stuff!

John Baldoni, president, Baldoni Consulting LLC;
author, Lead with Purpose, Lead Your Boss, and Lead By Example

The Leadership Challenge is written for leaders who want to transform organizations through some of the most turbulent times in healthcare. These case studies and research on The Five Practices and Ten Commitments of Leadership present very practical ways to be visionary, innovative, collaborative, and engaged with your employees. Every nurse is a leaderfrom the bedside to the boardroomand all should be competent in the works of The Leadership Challenge. I recommend it to ALL!

Susan Herman, DNP, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, CENP,
2015 president, Assoc. of CA Nurse Leaders,
and VP Patient Care Services & CNO,