A Leader's Legacy E-Book

James M. Kouzes

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Serie: J-B Leadership Challenge: Kouzes/Posner
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 205

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2008

Beschreibung

Uncover the latest developments in leadership development and coaching with insights from two of the most respected voices on the subject In this provocative book, leadership experts and authors of the best-selling The Leadership Challenge, 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. 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--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. In the book, you'll find: * A free-flowing discussion of leadership topics and lessons * Incisive explorations of ambiguous issues and paradoxes that have bedeviled leaders for generations * Concise and to-the-point essays representing new approaches to familiar themes, new stories, and new experiences A Leader's Legacy is 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.

Leseprobe

Contents

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Introduction

PART ONE: Significance

CHAPTER 1: Leaders Serve and Sacrifice

Only Leaders Who Serve Earn Commitment

Passionate Leaders Are Willing to Suffer

CHAPTER 2: The Best Leaders Are Teachers

Lesson One: The Best Way to Learn Is to Teach

Lesson Two: Legacies Are Passed on in the Stories We Tell

CHAPTER 3: We All Need Loving Critics

CHAPTER 4:

You

Are the Most Important Leader in Your Organization

You Matter

CHAPTER 5: No One Likes to Be an Assumption

PART TWO: Relationships

CHAPTER 6: Leadership Is Personal

CHAPTER 7: Leaders

Should

Want to Be Liked

CHAPTER 8: When You Don’t See Eye to Eye, Seek to Understand

The Only Person You Can Change Is You

Focus on the Purpose and Not the Person

Promote Constructive Insubordination

CHAPTER 9: You Can’t Take Trust for Granted

You Can’t Take Trust for Granted

Sometimes Trust Breaks Down

CHAPTER 10: Let Your People Go

No One Wants a Micromanager

Give People Freedom of Choice

Personal Responsibility

PART THREE: Aspirations

CHAPTER 11: Lead from the Inside Out

Leadership Begins When Something Grabs Hold of Us

Clarity of Values Builds Solid Support

CHAPTER 12: Forward-Looking Is a Leadership Prerequisite

We’re Hostage to the Present

Pay More Attention

Explore Future Possibilities

CHAPTER 13: It’s Not Just the Leader’s Vision

You Have to See What Others See

CHAPTER 14: Liberate the Leader in Everyone

Leadership Is Learned

CHAPTER 15: Leaders Are Followers, Too!

We Follow a Process and Not a Person

Leaders Follow

You Don’t Have to Be the Leader to Lead

PART FOUR: Courage

CHAPTER 16: There’s Courage in All of Us

Courage Is a State of Mind

Everyone Has Moments of Courage

CHAPTER 17: You Can’t Plan to Be Courageous, But You Can Choose It

Conversation 1. Adversities

Conversation 2. Fears

Conversation 3. Suffering

CHAPTER 18: It Takes Courage to Make a Life

Lesson One: Little Acts Can Have Huge Impact

Lesson Two: One Person Can Make a Difference

Lesson Three: Courageous Acts Flow from Beliefs

Rosa Parks Moments

CHAPTER 19: The Courage to Be Human

The Courage to Be Humble

The Need for More Grace in the Workplace

CHAPTER 20: Failure Is Always an Option

Professionals Believe in Possibilities

A Learning Curve Is Not a Straight Line

CHAPTER 21: No Money-Back Guarantee

Strengths Can Become Weaknesses

So What Should We Do?

Afterword: The Legacy You Leave Is the Life You Lead

Notes

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Index

End User License Agreement

Guide

Cover

Table of Contents

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ALeader’sLegacy

James M. Kouzes

Barry Z. Posner