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James M. Kouzes is the co-author with Barry Posner of the

award-winning and best-selling book, The Leadership Challenge,

with over 1.5 million copies sold. Hes also the Deans Executive

Professor of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara

University.The fourth edition ofThe Leadership Challenge was released in

August 2007 and is available in fifteen languages, including Chinese.

The Leadership Challenge was number three on Amazon Editors

Pick for the Best Business Books of 2007. It was also the winner of

the 19951996 Critics Choice Award and the 1989 James A. Hamilton

Hospital Administrators Book Award. Another recent book of theirs,

A Leaders Legacy (2006), was selected by Soundview Executive Book

Summaries as one of the top thirty books of the year and by the

Globe and Mail (Canada) as one of the top ten books of 2006. Jim

and Barry have also co-authored over a dozen other books, including

Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People DemandItchosen byIndustry Week as one of the ten best management

books of 1993,Encouraging the Heart (1999, 2003), The Leadership

Challenge Workbook (1999, 2003), and theEncouraging the Heart

Workbook (2006). Based on solid research involving over seventy

ABOUT THE EDITORS

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thousand surveys, one thousand written case studies, and one

hundred in-depth interviews, their books describe the leadershippractices that generate high performance in individuals and

organizations.

Jim and Barry developed the widely used and highly acclaimed

Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI), a 360-degree questionnaire

assessing leadership behavior. The LPI has been administered to over

500,000 leaders, and over three million observers worldwide haveprovided feedback using the LPI. It is the top-selling off-the-shelf

leadership assessment instrument in the world. Over 350 doctoral

dissertations and academic research projects have been based on

their work.

The International Management Council (IMC) honored Jim and

Barry as the 2001 recipients of the prestigious Wilbur M. McFeely

Award for their outstanding contributions to management and

leadership education. Past McFeely Award recipients include Peter

Drucker, Lee Iacocca, Tom Peters, Ken Blanchard, Norman Vincent

Peale, Francis Hesselbein, Stephen Covey, and Rosabeth Moss

Kanter. In 2006 Jim was presented with the Golden Gavel, thehighest honor awarded by Toastmasters International.

Jim is not only a highly regarded leadership scholar, but The

Wall Street Journal has cited Jim as one of the twelve best executive

educators in the United States. A popular speaker and seminar

leader, Jims clients have included Accenture, Applied Materials,

AT&T, Boeing, Charles Schwab, Cisco Systems, Consumers Energy,Dell Computer, Deloitte Touche, Egon Zehnder International, Federal

Express, Gap Inc., HSBC, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Lawrence

Livermore National Labs, Levi Strauss & Co., 3M, Microsoft,

Motorola, Roche Palo Alto, Siemens, State of New York, Thomson

Corporation, Toyota, and Wells Fargo.

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Jim is also an experienced executive. He served as president, then

CEO and chairman of the Tom Peters Company from 1988 until 2000.Prior to his tenure at TPC, he directed the Executive Development

Center at Santa Clara University from 1981 through 1987. He also

founded the Joint Center for Human Services Development at San

Jose State University, which he directed from 1972 until 1980. Jims

commitment to service was nurtured during his years growing up in

the Washington, D.C., area. His lifelong career in education beganin 19671969 when he served for two years in the Peace Corps. Jim

believes it was on January 20, 1961, when he was first inspired to

dedicate himself to leadership. That was the day he was one of only

a dozen Eagle Scouts who served in John F. Kennedys Honor Guard

at the Presidential Inauguration. Jim can be reached at jim@kouzes.

com, or on the Web at www.leadershipchallenge.com.

Barry Z. Posner is Professor of Leadership at the Leavey School

of Business, Santa Clara University (located in the heart of Silicon

Valley), where he served for twelve years as dean of the school.Barry, along with his co-author Jim Kouzes, received the American

Society for Training and Developments highest award for their

Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance.

The International Management Council named them as the nations

top management and leadership educators, and Barry was recently

recognized as one of the Top 50 Leadership Coaches in America.He is the co-author of the award-winning and best-selling

leadership book, The Leadership Challenge. Described as a

groundbreaking research study, this book combines keen insights

with practical applications and captures both why and how

leadership is everyones business. With over 1.8 million copies in


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print, this book has been named one of The Top 100 Business Books

of All Time, book-of-the-year by the American Council of Health CareExecutives, received the Critics Choice Award from book review

editors, and translated into over twenty languages.

TheLeadership Practices Inventory has been called the most

reliable, up-to-date leadership instrument available today, and the

online version has been completed by over 1.1 million people around

the globe. Barry has also co-authored several other award-winning,inspiring, and practical books on leadership: Credibility: How Leaders

Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It; Encouraging the Heart: A

Leaders Guide to Recognizing and Rewarding Others; The Academic

Administrators Guide to Exemplary Leadership; andA Leaders

Legacy.

Barry is an internationally renowned scholar who has published

more than eighty-five research and practitioner-oriented articles,

in such journals as theAcademy of Management Journal, Journal

of Applied Psychology, Human Relations, Personnel Psychology,

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and the like. He is

currently on the editorial review boards of theInternational Journalof Servant-Leadership, Leadership and Organizational Development,

andLeadership Review. Barry serves on the board of directors for the

San Jose Repertory Theatre and EMQ Family First.

Barry received an undergraduate degree in political science from

the University of California, Santa Barbara, a masters degree

from the Ohio State University in public administration, and hisPh.D. in organizational behavior and administrative theory from

the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. At Santa Clara he has

received the Presidents Distinguished Faculty Award, the schools

Extraordinary Faculty Award, and several other outstanding

teaching and leadership honors. Described as a warm, engaging, and


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pragmatic conference speaker and dynamic workshop facilitator,

Barry has worked with such organizations as Alcoa, AppliedMaterials, Australian Institute of Management, Charles Schwab,

Conference Board of Canada, Hewlett-Packard, Kaiser Permanente

Health Care, L.L. Bean, Levi Strauss, Merck, Motorola, NetApp,

Trader Joes, and the U.S. Postal Service, among others, and been

involved with leadership development efforts at more than thirty-

five college campuses. He has made presentations and conductedworkshops across the United States, and around the globe, from

Canada, Mexico, and Europe to the Far East, Australia, New

Zealand, and South Africa.

Elaine Biech is president and managing principal of ebb associates

inc, an organization development firm that helps organizations

work through large-scale change. She has been in the training

and consulting field for thirty years and works with business,

government, and non-profit organizations.

Elaine specializes in helping people work as teams to maximizetheir effectiveness. Customizing all of her work for individual clients,

she conducts strategic planning sessions and implements corporate-

wide systems such as quality improvement, reengineering of business

processes, and mentoring programs. She facilitates topics such as

coaching todays employees, fostering creativity, customer service,

time management, stress management, speaking skills, trainingcompetence, conducting productive meetings, managing change,

handling difficult employees, organizational communication, conflict

resolution, and effective listening.

She has developed media presentations and training materials and

has presented at dozens of national and international conferences.


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American Society of Training and Development has referred to Elaine

as the trainers trainer. She custom designs training programs formanagers, leaders, trainers, and consultants. To date, Elaine has

designed, developed and piloted five certificate programs for ASTD.

She has been featured in dozens of publications, includingThe Wall

Street Journal, Harvard Management Update, The Washington Post,

andFortune magazine.

As a management and executive consultant, trainer, and designer,she has provided services to OSI Restaurant Partners, LLC, FAA,

Land O Lakes, McDonalds, Lands End, General Casualty Insurance,

Chrysler, Johnson Wax, PricewaterhouseCoopers, American Family

Insurance, Marathon Oil, Hershey Chocolate, Federal Reserve Bank,

the U.S. Navy, NASA, Newport News Shipbuilding, Kohler Company,

ASTD, American Red Cross, Association of Independent Certified

Public Accountants, the University of Wisconsin, The College of

William and Mary, ODU, and hundreds of other public and private

sector organizations to prepare them for the challenges of the new

millennium.

She is the author and editor of over four dozen books and articles,includingASTDs Ultimate Train the Trainer (2009); 10 Steps to

Successful Training (ASTD, 2009); The Consultants Quick Start

Guide (2nd ed.) (2009);ASTD Handbook for Workplace Learning

Professionals (2008); Trainers Warehouse Book of Games (2008); The

Business of Consulting (2nd ed.) (2007); Thriving Through Change:

A Leaders Practical Guide to Change Mastery (2007); SuccessfulTeam-Building Tools (2nd ed.) (2007); 90 World-Class Activities by

90 World-Class Trainers (2007) (named a Training Review Best

Training Product of 2007); a nine-volume set of ASTDs Certification

Study Guides (2006); 12 Habits of Successful Trainers (ASTD Info-

line, 2005); The ASTD Info-lineDictionary of Basic Trainer Terms


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(2005); Training for Dummies (2005);Marketing Your Consulting

Services (2003); The Consultants Legal Guide (2000);InterpersonalSkills: Understanding Your Impact on Others (1996);Building

High Performance (1998); and The Pfeiffer Annual: Consulting and

The Pfeiffer Annual: Training (19982010). Her books have been

translated into Chinese, German, and Dutch.

Elaine has a bachelors degree from the University of Wisconsin-

Superior in business and education consulting and a mastersdegree in human resource development. She is active at the national

level of ASTD, is a life-time member, served on the 1990 National

Conference Design Committee, was a member of the national ASTD

Board of Directors and was the societys secretary from 1991 to 1994,

initiated and chaired Consultants Day for seven years, and was the

international conference design chair in 2000. In addition to her

work with ASTD, she has served on the Independent Consultants

Associations (ICA) Advisory Committee and on the Instructional

Systems Association (ISA) board of directors.

Elaine is the recipient of the 1992 National ASTD Torch Award,

the 2004 ASTD Volunteer-Staff Partnership Award, and the 2006ASTD Gordon M. Bliss Memorial Award. She was selected for the

1995 Wisconsin Women Entrepreneurs Mentor Award. In 2001 she

received ISAs highest award, The ISA Spirit Award. She has been the

consulting editor for the prestigious Training and ConsultingAnnuals

published by Pfeiffer for the past twelve years. Visit her website at

www.ebbweb.com or contact her at [email protected].


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THE FIVE PRACTICES AND TEN

COMMITMENTS OF EXEMPLARY LEADERSHIP

Model the WayModel the Way1. Clariy values by finding your voice and af rming shared

ideals.

2. Set the example by aligning actions and shared values.

nspire a Shared VisionInspire a Shared Vision3. Envision the uture by imagining exciting and ennobling

possibilities.

4. Enlist others in a common vision by appealing to shared

aspirations.

Challenge the ProcessChallenge the Process5. Search or opportunities by seizing the initiative and by look-

ing outward or innovative ways to improve.

6. Experiment and take risks by constantly generating small

wins and learning rom experience.

Enable Others to ActEnable Others to Act7. Foster collaboration by building trust and acilitating

relationships.

8. Strengthen others by increasing sel-determination and

developing competence.

Encourage the HeartEncourage the Heart9. Recognize contributions by showing appreciation or individ-

ual excellence.

10. Celebrate the values and victories by creating a spirit o

community.


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ACTIVE Learning for EXEMPLARY Leaders

THE BEST LEADERS ARE THE BEST LEARNERS. This evidence-based truth has been a oundational

principle o The Leadership Challenge since it was frst published nearly twenty-fve years ago. In thisnew work, bestselling Leadership Challenge authors Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner team up with

experiential learning expert Elaine Biech to bring todays leaders over 100 engaging activities designed

to expand and accelerate their leadership development eorts.

Grounded in The Five Practices o Exemplary Leadership model, The Leadership Challenge

Activities Bookincludes tools, tips, and techniques or extraordinary training delivery; suggestions or

activity acilitation; an overview o The Five Practices model; and a broad selection o activities or each

o The Five Practices (Model the Way, Inspire a Shared Vision, Challenge the Process, Enable Others to

Act, and Encourage the Heart) as well as several general leadership skills activities.

World-class contributors to this unique volume include Jean Barbazette, Geo Bellman, Daryl Conner,

Ann Hermann-Nehdi, Beverly Kaye, Lou Russell, Cal Wick as well as a selection o Leadership Challenge

Certifed Masters. While primarily designed or classroom training sessions, the activities can easily be

adapted or one-on-one coaching situations (including LPI eedback coaching), educational classroom

settings, or web-based learning sessions. A companion website eatures the handouts and worksheets

associated with some activities, which can be reproduced and customized.

Discover more at www.leadershipchallenge.com

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

JAMES M. KOUZES AND BARRY Z. POSNER are the coauthors o The

Leadership Challenge, A Leaders Legacy, Credibility, Encouraging the Heart,

and The Leadership Challenge Workbook, and over a dozen other books

and workbooks on leadership. They also developed the highly-acclaimed

Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI),a 360-degree assessment tool based

on The Five Practices.

ELAINE BIECH is president and managing principal o ebb associates inc., a strategic

implementation, leadership development, and experiential learning consulting frm. She is

also the author and editor o over our dozen books, including Training for Dummies and

the Pfeiffer Annuals: Training and Consulting.

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