“The Leadership Challenge is still popular and relevant after 25 years for a reason: it is a classic. No one provides more practical real-world advice than Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner. This is the book on leadership that I recommend to all of my clients, and I think this is the greatest book on leadership ever written.”
—MARSHALL GOLDSMITH, bestselling author, MOJO and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

“This is perhaps the most comprehensive field guide ever written for leaders. It has been a key part of my personal journey as a leader for years.”
—PATRICK LENCIONI, president, The Table Group; bestselling author, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and The Advantage

“Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner have done it again! In this all-new fifth edition of The Leadership Challenge—the bible for leaders everywhere—they have taken their leadership ideas to new heights, befitting of the challenges leaders face in this global era.”
—BILL GEORGE, author, True North; former chairman and CEO, Medtronic, Inc.

“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 21^st century.”
—CHIP CONLEY, founder, Joie de Vivre Hotels; author, PEAK and Emotional Equations

“Now in its fifth edition, The Leadership Challenge has stood the test of time for good reason: it’s quite simply one of the best books you’ll ever read on leadership.”
—KEN BLANCHARD, coauthor, The One Minute Manager^® and Great Leaders Grow

“I read The Leadership Challenge as a new manager building Oracle University and was deeply affected by it. It shaped me as a leader and influenced my career. Reading the fifth edition twenty years later, I am struck by how its wisdom stands the test of time while also providing fresh, relevant insights for leading at your best and mobilizing others to achieve the extraordinary.”
—LIZ WISEMAN, author, Multipliers

“The Leadership Challenge remains one of the five best books I have ever read. Twenty-five years after its first publication, I still continually recommend it to others looking to improve as leaders.”
—JOHN C. MAXWELL, leadership expert; bestselling author, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership

James Kouzes is the Dean’s Executive Fellow of Leadership, Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University, and lectures on leadership around the world to corporations, governments, and nonprofits.

Barry Posner is Accolti Professor of Leadership and former Dean (1997-2009) of the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University. An accomplished scholar, he also provides leadership workshops and seminars around the world.

Kouzes and Posner are the authors of Credibility, The Truth About Leadership, A Leader’s Legacy, Encouraging the Heart, and The Student Leadership Challenge, among many other works. They also developed the highly acclaimed Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI).

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