Learn how you can tackle everyday leadership challenges regardless of your title, position, or authority with this insightful resource A book about leadership for people who are not in formal or hierarchical leadership positions, Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership provides readers with a comprehensive and practical approach to addressing leadership challenges, no matter the setting or circumstance. Esteemed scholars and sought-after consultants Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner adapt their trademark The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® framework to today’s more horizontal workplace, showing people that leadership is not about where you are in the organization; it’s about how you behave and what you do. Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership draws on the authors’ deep well of research and practical experience to cover key subjects: The essence of making a difference in any role, setting, or situation The difference between positions of authority and leadership The importance of self-development in leadership development This book is perfectly applicable and accessible for anyone who wants to improve their own leadership potential and who isn’t yet in an official leadership role. Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership offers authoritative new insights, original case studies and examples, and practical guidance for those individuals who want to make a difference. You supply the will, and this book will supply the way.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 There are leaders everywhere, from every profession, discipline, and field. They are not just found at the top of organizations, but at all levels, including the middle and on the front lines. Leadership is not a hierarchical level. It is not a title or a rank. It is not a position of power or a place of privilege. It is earned through your behavior and the recognition you receive from others. #2 There are leaders everywhere, from every profession, discipline, and field. They are not just found at the top of organizations, but at all levels and on the front lines. #3 You can be a role model for those around you, from your family to your coworkers, to the youth athletic team or club you coach after work. #4 Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow. It is earned through your behavior and the recognition you receive from others.

These quick reads, based on McGraw-Hill bestsellers, are designed to meet the needs of busy people. Titles in the series focus on each book's main themes and action ideas, reduced to a manageable page count for on-the-go readers. A workplace-tested prescription for encouraging the behaviors and key drivers of effective leadership, from one of today's top training teams.

When it was initially written in 1987, few could have predicted that The Leadership Challenge would become one of the best-selling leadership books of all time. Now, faced with the new challenges of our unpredictable global business environment, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner--two of the country's premier leadership experts--have completely revised and updated their classic book. Building on the knowledge base of their previous books, the third edition of The Leadership Challenge is grounded in extensive research and based on interviews with all kinds of leaders at all levels in public and private organizations from around the world. In this edition, the authors emphasize that the fundamentals of leadership are the same today as they were in the 1980s, and as they've probably been for centuries. In that sense, nothing's new. Leadership is not a fad. While the content of leadership has not changed, the context has-and in some cases, changed dramatically.

The classic for managers seeking to hone their leadership skills into a C-Suite position Updated with copious new research conducted over the past ten years, this landmark work provides everything you need to transform yourself from an effective manager to an extraordinary leader. In addition to the time-proven methods and approaches that has made The New Extraordinary Leader one of the most popular leadership books around, this third edition includes•Updated insights on how to demystify leadership•More data on how extraordinary leadership directly benefits employee engagement, customer satisfaction, retention, innovation, and profitability•A brand-new, simplified definition of leadership strengths •Critical research on the importance of developing leadership teams •Three all new chapters that cover: Leadership competencies and how they interplay with each other, The role of cross training in leadership development, and The leader’s role in his or her own development

A Systems Approach to Small Group Interaction pioneered the systems approach and is the only book that integrates all important small group topics into a single comprehensive conceptual model. The text also features a unique systematic organization. Each chapter begins with a brief preview, followed by a glossary of terms, a real life case study, and then the chapter text material; next comes several experiential exercises for skill development, and finally the chapter concludes with two original readings.

TAKE AN EXCITING JOURNEY THROUGH THE PARADIGMS OF LEADERSHIP With the Second Edition of PRACTICING LEADRSHIP you can get the skills and knowledge you need to become a highly effective leader. Featuring contributions from a variety of disciplines, including psychology., management, communications, military science, the quality movement, political science, and philosophy, the text takes you on a unique journey through the key paradigms that have helped shape some of today's most widely respected world leaders. Original essays by Stephen Covey, James Kouzes, Barry Posner, and John Pepper, along with profiles pf such real-world leaders as Nelson Mandela, Mother Theresa, John Wooden, Sam Walton, and Colin Powell, will help you understand how to develop your own personal set of leadership skills. The Second Edition features: A new chapter on "Practicing Leadership in a Multicultural Society" New coverage of presidential leadership in Chapter 5 New profiles of Warren Buffet, Barry and Eliot, Oprah Winfrey, Martin Luther, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lee Kuang Kew, King Hussein, Ceasar Chavez, Mohammed Ali, and others Original essays by Stephen Covey, James Kouzes, Barry Posner, and John Pepper Expanded chapters on Psychology, Management, Political Science, The Military, Communications, and Leadership Theory Summaries of recently published leadership texts, including Gardner, Bennis, and Covey, with links to text chapters

Leadership—and leadership studies—are in flux. In the revised and updated fourth edition of this acclaimed text, contributors speak directly to the central points of change: leadership vs. management; leadership and followership; and especially, the diversity of leadership styles and pathways. Tapping the wisdom of classic articles and fifteen new readings, William Rosenbach and Robert Taylor present a renewed framework for understanding leaders and leadership from a contemporary perspective. Opportunity, vision, empowerment, action, values, and timing are essential ingredients in the new paradigm of leadership outlined here. Further, the fourth edition represents a significant shift in perspective on leadership studies—it examines the ways in which diversity of intellect, as well as other forms of diversity, represents the quintessential competitive advantage of the late '90s and beyond.