{"product_id":"a-leaders-legacy-isbn-9780787982966","title":"A Leader's Legacy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUncover the latest developments in leadership development and coaching with insights from two of the most respected voices on the subject\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this provocative book, leadership experts and authors of the best-selling \u003ci\u003eThe Leadership Challenge\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese 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 today’s 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 it’s not just the leader’s 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the book, you’ll find:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eA free-flowing discussion of leadership topics and lessons\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncisive explorations of ambiguous issues and paradoxes that have bedeviled leaders for generations\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConcise and to-the-point essays representing new approaches to familiar themes, new stories, and new experiences\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Leader’s Legacy \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart one Significance 9\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Leaders Serve and Sacrifice 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Best Leaders Are Teachers 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 We All Need Loving Critics 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 You Are the Most Important Leader in Your Organization 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 No One Likes to Be an Assumption 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart two Relationships 47\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Leadership Is Personal 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Leaders Should Want to Be Liked 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 When You Don’t See Eye to Eye, Seek to Understand 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 You Can’t Take Trust for Granted 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Let Your People Go 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart three Aspirations 89\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Lead from the Inside Out 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Forward-Looking Is a Leadership Prerequisite 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 It’s Not Just the Leader’s Vision 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Liberate the Leader in Everyone 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Leaders Are Followers, Too! 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart four Courage 131\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 There’s Courage in All of Us 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 You Can’t Plan to Be Courageous, But You Can Choose It 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 It Takes Courage to Make a Life 148\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 The Courage to Be Human 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Failure Is Always an Option 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 No Money-Back Guarantee 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword: The Legacy You Leave Is the Life You Lead 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Authors 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 195\u003c\/p\u003e \" …an often emotional but compelling book…offers a thoughtful and reassuring perspective that any leader or aspiring leader can use…\" \u003ci\u003e(Business Executive\u003c\/i\u003e, June 2007) \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJIM KOUZES\u003c\/b\u003e is an Executive Fellow at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBARRY POSNER\u003c\/b\u003e is dean of the Leavey School of Business and professor of leadership at Santa Clara University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTogether, they are the authors of the award-winning and bestselling book \u003ci\u003eThe Leadership Challenge\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the widely used \u003ci\u003eLeadership Practices Inventory (LPI)\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"By asking ourselves how we want to be remembered, we plant the seeds for living our lives as if we matter. By living each day as if we matter, we offer up our own unique legacy. By offering up our own unique legacy, we make the world we inhabit a better place than we found it.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—From the Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this provocative book, leadership experts and authors of the best-selling \u003ci\u003eThe Leadership Challenge\u003c\/i\u003e Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner take on a unique challenge and explore the question of leadership and legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKouzes and Posner examine in twenty-two chapters the critical questions all leaders must ask themselves in order to 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 today's leaders must grapple— issues 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 it's not just the leader's vision, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Leader's Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e is Kouzes and Posner's most personal and compelling work to date. They focus on the core challenges leaders face and offer up a thoughtful and reassuring perspective any leader—or aspiring leader—can use to explore the choices they make as they walk their path to greatness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat Leaders Are Saying About \u003ci\u003eA Leader's Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner have done it again! In a brilliant follow-up to \u003ci\u003eThe Leadership Challenge\u003c\/i\u003e, they offer the combined wisdom of decades of studying and working with leaders. In 22 thoughtful essays they summarize with depth and clarity what is really important for you as a leader: your courage, your relationships, and the legacy you leave behind.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Bill George, former chairman and CEO, Medtronic; author, \u003ci\u003eAuthentic Leadership\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This superb book defies conventional wisdom in favor of being truly wise. In chapters such as 'Leaders Should Want to Be Liked' and 'Failure Is Always an Option,' Kouzes and Posner portray leaders on a human scale, opening leadership to anyone who is willing to be fully human. That, of course, is a challenge! And yet the style of this book—with its stories of well-grounded leaders and its engaging conversational prose—encourages the reader to live into and up to that challenge. A Leader's Legacy will surely become key to the literary legacy that its authors have been leaving in their wake over the past twenty-five years.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Parker J. Palmer, author, \u003ci\u003eThe Courage to Teach\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Hidden Wholeness\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLet Your Life Speak\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In their new book, Kouzes and Posner provide a badly needed supplement to all those other books on leadership. First, they don't just say that everyone can be a leader—that oft-repeated bromide is little more than a cliché now. They demonstrate (with good examples) how true and important the idea is. And second (again with effective examples) they make 'leadership' something that will interest not just 'organizational' types but anyone who hopes to make a difference in the world.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—William Bridges, author, \u003ci\u003eTransitions and Managing Transition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Leader's Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e is an indispensable daily reference for leaders at every level of every enterprise. Legacy is a gift to leaders of today, to leaders of the future.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Frances Hesselbein, chairman, Leader to Leader Institute\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner have done it again! In clear, concise essays filled with wisdom and insight, they set the standard of what leaders need to be in order to excel in the twenty-first century, starting with the legacy that they want to leave behind. \u003ci\u003eA Leader's Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read, not just for those at the top of organizations but for anyone at any level who aspires to be a leader.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Bill George, former chairman and CEO, Medtronic; author, \u003ci\u003eAuthentic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLeadership\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"This superb book defies conventional wisdom in favor of being truly wise. In chapters such as ‘Leaders \u003ci\u003eShould\u003c\/i\u003e Want to Be Liked’ and ‘Failure Is Always an Option,’ Kouzes and Posner portray leaders on a human scale, opening leadership to anyone who is willing to be fully human. That, of course, is a challenge! And yet the style of this book—with its stories of well-grounded leaders and its engaging conversational prose—encourages the reader to live into and up to that challenge. \u003ci\u003eA Leader's Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e will surely become key to the literary legacy that its authors have been leaving in their wake over the past twenty-five years.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Parker J. Palmer, author, \u003ci\u003eThe Courage to Teach, A Hidden Wholeness\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLet Your Life Speak\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In their new book, Kouzes and Posner provide a badly needed supplement to all those other books on leadership. First, they don’t just \u003ci\u003esay\u003c\/i\u003e that everyone can be a leader—that oft-repeated bromide is little more than a cliché now. They demonstrate (with good examples) how true and important the idea is. 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