The Truth about Leadership: The No-fads, Heart-of-the-Matter Facts You Need to KnowISBN: 978-0-470-63354-0
Hardcover
224 pages
August 2010, Jossey-Bass
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—PATRICK LENCIONI, president, The Table Group, and author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and Getting Naked
“The leadership truths Kouzes and Posner lay out have not
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world transformed by Twittering Millennials. Buy copies for
yourself, your boss, and also for leaders of your
organization.”
—CHARLENE LI, author of Open Leadership, and
founder, Altimeter Group
“The Truth About Leadership provides some of the
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If you have not read Kouzes and Posner and you manage people, shame
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—ADRIAN GOSTICK, author of The Carrot
Principle
“I’ve always been a big proponent of simple truths.
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Posner, The Truth About Leadership. Jim and Barry
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—KEN BLANCHARD, coauthor of The One Minute
Manager® and Leading at a Higher Level
“Regardless of your experience, age, generation, or life
stage, The Truth About Leadership will remind you of the
vital role leaders play in our lives, renew your interest in
understanding what makes a leader great, and rekindle your desire
to be an inspiring leader yourself.”
—LYNNE LANCASTER, coauthor of When Generations
Collide and The M-Factor
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—COLONEL TOM KOLDITZ, PhD, professor, U.S. Military
Academy at West Point, and author of In Extremis
Leadership
“This is a book a leader should put on his or her
nightstand and read a chapter a night to refresh on what is
important from a leadership perspective.”
—STEPHEN ALMASSY, Global Vice Chair, OCA/Industry,
Ernst & Young Global Limited