A Leader’s Legacy

Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, internationally recognized experts in the field of leadership and authors of the best-selling Leadership Challenge , explore a variety of today's most critical and difficult leadership issues. Unlike their other books, which follow The Leadership Challenge model directly, this book contains 22 short chapters on a variety of leadership-related topics, illustrated with stories from their extensive experience working with leaders from top organizations and their vast research base. Chapters include:

• Leaders Serve and Sacrifice
• The Best Leaders Are Teachers
• We All Need Loving Critics
• You Are The Most Important Leader
• Leadership Is Personal
• Leaders Should Want to Be Liked
• When You Don’t See Eye to Eye, Seek to Understand
• You Can’t Take Trust for Granted
• Forward-Looking Is a Leadership Prerequisite
• Liberate the Leader in Everyone
• Leaders Are Followers, Too
• You Can’t Plan to Be Courageous, But You Can Choose It
• Failure Is Always an Option
• The Courage to Be Human
• The Legacy You Leave Is the Life You Lead