From the bestselling authors of The Leadership Challenge and over a
dozen award winning leadership books, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z.
Posner have written a new book that examines a fundamental
question: How do people learn leadership? How do they learn to
become leaders? Learning Leadership: The Five Fundamentals of
Becoming an Exemplary Leader (ISBN: 978-1-119-14428-1; Wiley; May
2016) is a comprehensive guide to unleashing the inner-leader in us
all and to building a solid foundation for a lifetime of leadership
growth and mastery. The book offers a concrete framework to help
individuals of all levels, functions, and backgrounds take charge
of their own leadership development and become the best leaders
they can be. Arguing that all individuals are born with the
capacity to lead, Kouzes and Posner provide readers with a
practical series of actions and specific coaching tips for
harnessing that capacity and creating a context in which they can
excel., Supported by over 30 years of research, from over seventy
countries, and with examples from real-world leaders, Learning
Leadership is a clarion call to unleash the leadership potential
that is already present in today s society. According to Kouzes and
Posner, Leadership makes a significant difference in levels of
engagement and commitment and is perhaps the most important asset
in every organization, yet recent research points to a shortage of
leaders. It is a serious global concern. The world needs more
exemplary leaders in order to promote high-performing workplaces
and inspire feelings of greater self-worth and meaningfulness. The
shortage, however, is not because of the lack of potential talent.
The people are out there, the eagerness is out there, and the
capability is out there. The shortage results from prevailing myths
myths about talent, strengths, position, self-reliance, and effort
that inhibit the vast majority of leaders from shining and
organizations from realizing the full benefits of the talent they
already have. Learning Leadership provides readers with
evidence-based strategies to ignite the habit of continuous
improvement and the mindset of becoming the best leaders they can
be. Emerging leaders, as well as leadership developers, internal
and external coaches and trainers, and other human resource
professionals will learn from first-hand stories and practical
examples so that they can deeply understand and apply the
fundamental for becoming the best leaders they can be. Learning
Leadership: The Five Fundamentals of Becoming an Exemplary Leader
is divided into digestible bite-sized chapters that encourage daily
actions to becoming a better leader. Key takeaways from the book
include: *Believe in Yourself. Believing in oneself is the
essential first step in developing leadership competencies. The
best leaders are learners, and they can t achieve mastery until and
unless they truly decide that inside them there is a person who can
make and difference and learn to be a better leader than they are
right now. *Aspire to Excel. To become an exemplary leader, people
have to determine what they care most about and why they want to
lead. Leaders with values-based motivations are the most likely to
excel. They also must have a clear image of the kind of leader they
want to be in the future and the legacy they want to leave for
others. *Challenge Yourself. Challenging oneself is critical to
learning leadership. Leaders have to seek new experiences and test
themselves. There will be inevitable setbacks and failures along
the way that require curiosity, grit, courage, and resilience in
order to persist in learning and becoming the best. *Engage
Support. One can t lead alone, and one can t learn alone.It is
essential to get support and coaching on the path to achieving
excellence. Whether it s family, managers at work, or professional
coaches, leaders need the advice, feedback, care, and support of
others. *Practice Deliberately. No one gets better at anything
without continuous practice. Exemplary leaders spend more time
practicing than ordinary leaders. Simply being in the role of a
leader is insufficient. To achieve mastery, leaders must set
improvement goals, participate in designed learning experiences,
ask for feedback, and get coaching. They also put in the time every
day and make learning leadership a daily habit. Kouzes and Posner
offer unrivaled insights into what it means to become an exemplary
leader in today s world with their original research and over 30
years of experience studying the practices of extraordinary
leadership. They show that anyone can become a better leader if
they believe in themselves, aspire to excel, challenge themselves,
to grow, engage the support of others, and practice deliberately.
Learning Leadership challenges readers to do the meaningful and
disciplined work necessary to becoming the best they can, using a
new mindset and toolkit that can make extraordinary things happen.
It s not the once-in-a-while transformational acts that demonstrate
leadership. It s the little things that one does day in and day out
that pave the path to greatness.
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