Since the book helped to frame my own ideas on leadership, it was a pleasure to sit down recently with both KouzesandPosner to talk about a topic I consider the most relevant to this column: how leaders can communicate a vision that gets people excited about going to work each day.
Twenty-five years ago Santa Clara University Professors Jim Kouzesand Barry Posner wrote The Leadership Challenge, a primer on how to make extraordinary things happen in organizations by helping leaders perform their personal best.