Synopsis
The authors of the classic bestseller The Leadership Challenge bring their expertise to higher education, offering five practices that can make any college or university leader into an exemplary leader. Drawing on the same pioneering research that formed the foundation of their classic bestseller The Leadership Challenge (over 2.7 million copies sold), James Kouzes and Barry Posner offer a set of leadership skills and practices that will make a significant difference in every area of higher education-faculty, administration, library services, career counseling, auxiliary services, campus safety, and more. It's about the behaviors that leaders, regardless of their position, use to transform values into actions, visions into realities, obstacles into innovations, segments into solidarity, and risks into rewards. Kouzes and Posner tell the leadership story from the inside and move outward, describing it first as a personal journey and then as mobilizing others to want to do things they have never done before. The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership is the operating system for this adventure. Leadership in Higher Education explains the fundamental principles that support these practices and provides case examples of people in higher education who demonstrate each one. A core theme that weaves its way through all the chapters is that, whether it's one to one or one to many, leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow. We need leaders who can unite us and ignite us. This book lights the way.
About the Author
Jim Kouzes is the Dean's Executive Fellow of Leadership at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. Together with Barry Posner, he is the coauthor of The Leadership Challenge and more than a dozen books in the Leadership Challenge franchise. Kouzes and Posner have conducted leadership development programs for hundreds of organizations, including Apple, Bank of America, Chevron, Deloitte & Touche, FedEx, Google, Johnson & Johnson, L. L. Bean, United Way, Disney, and many more. They have received the Association for Talent Development's Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance award; been named Management/Leadership Educators of the Year by the International Management Council; were ranked by Leadership Excellence magazine in the top twenty on its list of the Top 100 Thought Leaders; and listed among HR Magazine's Most Influential International Thinkers. Barry Posner is the Accolti Endowed Professor of Leadership at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. Together with Jim Kouzes, he is the coauthor of The Leadership Challenge and more than a dozen books in the Leadership Challenge franchise. Kouzes and Posner have conducted leadership development programs for hundreds of organizations, including Apple, Bank of America, Chevron, Deloitte & Touche, FedEx, Google, Johnson & Johnson, L. L. Bean, United Way, Disney, and many more. They have received the Association for Talent Development's Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance award; been named Management/Leadership Educators of the Year by the International Management Council; were ranked by Leadership Excellence magazine in the top twenty on its list of the Top 100 Thought Leaders; and listed among HR Magazine's Most Influential International Thinkers.
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