Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It (Jossey Bass Business and Management Series) (Hardcover) by James M. Kouzes(Author),Barry Z. Posner(Author) Hardcover:332 pages Publisher:Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (September 1993) Language:English ISBN-10:155542550X ISBN-13:978-1555425500 Product Dimensions:9.3 x 6.5 x 1.4 inches Shipping Weight:1.4 pounds
From Publishers Weekly Behavioral savants Kouzes and Posner ( The Leadership Challenge ) here provide philosophical and practical guidance for business executives at a time when computers, consultants, coproduction and ever-growing employee empowerment leave less for managers to do. Unsurprisingly, the authors place honesty, competence and a talent to inspire ("a set of values that can be learned") at the core of effective leadership. From a penetrating survey of business methods and employee attitudes worldwide, Kouzes and Posner pinpoint future trends--e.g., more authority for customer contact personnel--in a logical, integrated and symbiotic organizational plan to replace a now-outdated omnipotent-boss system. Unfortunately, a hucksterish title and an introductory essay on "credibility" do a disservice to this broad and serious work's potential readership. 50,000 first printing; Executive Program book club selection; author tour. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description Now available in paperback, Credibility—one of Industry Week's top ten management books of 1993—shows why leadership is above all a relationship, with credibility as the cornerstone. Best-selling authors Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner reveal six key disciplines and practices that work to strengthen a leader's capacity for development and sustaining credibility by relating rich examples and stories of real managers in action.
Book Info Shows why leadership is above all a relationship, with credibility as the cornerstone. Written by the leadership expert, James Kouzes. DLC:Leadership.
Inside Flap Copy A personal, inspiring, and genuine guide to helping us all understand the fundamental importance of credibility for building personal and organizational success. Credibility shows why leadership is above all a relationship, with credibility as the cornerstone. Through rich examples and stories of real managers in action, authors Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner reveal the six key disciplines and related practices that strengthen a leader's capacity for development and sustaining credibility.
From the Back Cover "'Credibility' may well move quickly into the lexicon as the next leadership buzzword." -- Fortune
One of Industry Week's Top Ten Best Management Books
A Main Selection of The Executive Program Book Club
"Leadership is personal. It's not about the corporation, the community, or the country. It's about you. If people don't believe in the messenger, they won't believe the message. If people don't believe in you, they won't believe in what you say. And if it's about you, then it's about your beliefs, your values, your principles."-- from Credibility
In this best-selling book, Kouzes and Posner (authors of The Leadership Challenge), explain why leadership is above all a relationship, with credibility as the cornerstone. They provide rich examples of real managers in action and reveal the six key disciplines and related practices that strengthen a leader's capacity for developing and sustaining credibility. Kouzes and Posner show how leaders can encourage greater initiative, risk-taking, and productivity by demonstrating trust in employees and resolving conflicts on the basis of principles, not positions.
"Make room on your bookshelf for Credibility. Here is a much-needed human approach to leadership, finally focusing on issues that really matter-- honesty, sensitivity to diversity, and the need for community.'' -- Ken Blanchard, chairman, Blanchard Training and Development, Inc., and coauthor, The One Minute Manager--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
About the Author James M. Kouzes is chairman emeritus of the Tom Peters Company and an executive fellow at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University. Barry Z. Posner is dean of the Leavey School of Business and professor of leadership at Santa Clara University. Kouzes and Posner are the coauthors of The Leadership Challenge, Encouraging the Heart, and The Leadership Challenge Planner. They also developed the highly acclaimed Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) and LPIOnline.com, 360-degree assessment tools based on the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership.--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
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