A Leader's LegacyISBN: 978-0-7879-8296-6
Hardcover
208 pages
August 2006, Jossey-Bass
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—Bill George, former chairman and CEO, Medtronic; author, Authentic Leadership
"This superb book defies conventional wisdom in favor of being
truly wise. In chapters such as ‘Leaders Should Want
to Be Liked’ and ‘Failure Is Always an Option,’
Kouzes and Posner portray leaders on a human scale, opening
leadership to anyone who is willing to be fully human. That, of
course, is a challenge! And yet the style of this book—with
its stories of well-grounded leaders and its engaging
conversational prose—encourages the reader to live into and
up to that challenge. A Leader's Legacy will surely become
key to the literary legacy that its authors have been leaving in
their wake over the past twenty-five years."
—Parker J. Palmer, author, The Courage to Teach, A Hidden
Wholeness, and Let Your Life Speak
"In their new book, Kouzes and Posner provide a badly needed
supplement to all those other books on leadership. First, they
don’t just say that everyone can be a
leader—that oft-repeated bromide is little more than a
cliché now. They demonstrate (with good examples) how true and
important the idea is. And second (again with effective examples)
they make ‘leadership’ something that will interest not
just ‘organizational’ types but anyone who hopes to
make a difference in the world."
—William Bridges, author, Transitions and Managing
Transition
"A Leader’s Legacy is an indispensable daily
reference for leaders at every level of every enterprise.
Legacy is a gift to leaders of today, to leaders of the
future."
—Frances Hesselbein, chairman, Leader to Leader Institute