The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations, 5th Edition

Advance Praise for THE LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE

“Perhaps the most comprehensive field guide ever written for leaders…a key part of my personal journey as a leader…” – Patrick Lencioni, President, The Table Group; bestselling author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and The Advantage

“Peter Drucker would probably have called the publishing of Jim Kouzes’ and Barry Posner’s book The Leadership Challenge ‘a distinguished public service.’” – William A. Cohen, Major General, USAFR, Ret. author of Drucker on Leadership and Heroic Leadership

“The Leadership Challenge—the bible for leaders everywhere...” – Bill George, author, True North, and former Chairman and CEO, Medtronic, Inc.

 “No book has ever chronicled the practices of true leadership better than The Leadership Challenge...” – Chip Conley, founder, Joie de Vivre Hotels, and author, PEAK and Emotional Equations

“It’s quite simply one of the best books you’ll ever read on leadership.”

– Ken Blanchard, co-author, The One Minute Manager^® and Great Leaders Grow

“I read The Leadership Challenge as a new manager building Oracle University…reading the fifth edition 20 years later, I am struck by how its wisdom stands the test of time...”
– Liz Wiseman, author, Multipliers

“The Leadership Challenge remains one of the five best books I have ever read...”

– John C. Maxwell, leadership expert and bestselling author, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership

“My heart goes out to Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner with the deepest gratitude for this book, the most powerful leadership resource available...” – Frances Hesselbein, former CEO, Girl Scouts of the USA, and author, My Life in Leadership

“Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner have taken one of the true leadership classics of the late 20^th century and made it freshly relevant for today’s 21^st century leaders.”– Douglas R. Conant, New York Times bestselling author, TouchPoints, and retired CEO, Campbell Soup Company

“If you have ever aspired to be a leader, or need to take your leadership skills to the highest levels, this is the book for you—all you need to do is take the challenge!”

– Brent Jones, former All-Pro football player, Managing Partner, Northgate Capital

“The Leadership Challenge is the best research-based practical field guide for leaders I have ever read...” – James Foster, SVP, Chief Product Supply Officer, The Clorox Company

“The Leadership Challenge is the first book I recommend to all new leaders in Kaiser Permanente. Twenty five years after it was first written, it remains the best guide to leadership success, and  in a time of global competition and economic uncertainty, the principles elucidated by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner serve as a powerful foundation for any individual hoping to help others innovate and embrace change. Leaders should be required to re-read this book every five years of their career.” – Robert Pearl, MD, Executive Director and CEO, The Permanente Medical Group, Kaiser Permanente

“Seldom, it seems, have I been in the office of an HR professional where I did not see a copy of The Leadership Challenge. The book has become a go-to source for professionals looking for insight into leadership development…” – John Baldoni, President, Baldoni Consulting LLC, and author, Lead With Purpose, Lead Your Boss, and Lead By Example

 “If you could read only one book about the art and science of leading, then this is without question the book you should read.” – Heidi Grant Halvorson, PhD, author, Nine Things Successful People Do Differently

 “The fifth edition of The Leadership Challenge will quickly become a classic. Stop what you are doing and start reading, leading and achieving.” – Pat Williams, SVP, Orlando Magic, and author, Leadership Excellence 

“The Leadership Challenge is indispensable reading for those who take on the leadership of our schools.”

– Kevin Skelly, PhD, Superintendent, Palo Alto Unified School District

 “The Leadership Challenge gives present and future physician leaders the leadership practices that will make them both better leaders and physicians.”

– Fernando Mendoza, MD, M.P.H. Professor and Chief, Division of General Pediatrics; Service Chief, General Pediatrics Lucile Packard Children Hospital; and Associate Dean of Minority Advising and Programs School of Medicine, Stanford University.