Since the book helped to frame myownideas on leadership, it was a pleasure to sit down recently with both Kouzes and Posner 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.
In saying this, I will inevitably come across as some kind of preening purist, claiming the mantle of "true conservatism" for myown wish-list of ideas, while dismissing others in Republican or Tory ranks as somehow phonies.