The Legacy You Leave Is the Life You Lead

Jim Kouzes and Barry Possner read their latest book: A Leader's Legacy, a must listen for Leaders and those aspiring to be.

(PRWEB) November 9, 2006 -- Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, internationally recognized experts in the field of leadership and authors of the best-selling Leadership Challenge, explore the important notion of legacy and the critical questions any leader must ask him or herself in order to leave a lasting impact.

In a series of 22 short essays, grouped into four parts: significance, relationships, aspirations, and courage, the authors explore the thorny and often ambiguous issues that today's leaders grapple with including why:

•    People don't commit to plans, they commit to causes

•    It's not the leader's vision, it's the shared vision

•    There is no silver bullet

•    How leading changes who you are

•    How the legacy you leave is the life you lead

In what is their most personal work to date, Kouzes and Posner zero in on the core challenges leaders face and offer up a thoughtful and reassuring perspective any leader, or aspiring leader, will learn from and enjoy.

"Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner have done it again! In clear, concise essays filled with wisdom and insight, they set the standard of what leaders need to be in order to excel in the twenty-first century, starting with the legacy that they want to leave behind. A Leader's Legacy is a must-read, not just for those at the top of organizations but for anyone at any level who aspires to be a leader."--Bill George, former chairman and CEO, Medtronic; author, Authentic Leadership

.Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner are coauthors of the award-winning and best-selling book, The Leadership Challenge, with over 1.4 million copies sold in more than seventeen different languages.

They have coauthored more than a dozen books, including Credibility: How Leaders Gain It and Lose It, Why People Demand It—chosen by Industry Week as one of its year's five best management books—and Encouraging the Heart. Jim and Barry also developed the highly acclaimed Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI), a 360-degree questionnaire assessing leadership behavior, which is one of the most widely used leadership assessment instruments in the world. More than three hundred doctoral dissertations and academic research projects have been based on the "Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership" model.

Jim and Barry were named Management/Leadership Educators of the Year by the International Management Council and received from them the prestigious Wilbur M. McFeely Award. This honor puts them in the company of Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Peter Drucker, Edward Deming, Frances Hesselbein, Lee Iacocca, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Norman Vincent Peale, and Tom Peters, who are all past recipients of the award. In the book Coaching for Leadership they were listed among the nation's top leadership educators. Jim and Barry are frequent conference speakers and each has conducted leadership development programs for hundreds of organizations, including Apple, Applied Materials, ARCO, AT&T, Australia Post, Bank of America, Bose, Charles Schwab, Cisco Systems, Community Leadership Association, Conference Board of Canada, Consumers Energy, Dell Computer, Deloitte Touche, Egon Zehnder International, Federal Express, Gymboree, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Kaiser Foundation Health Plans and Hospitals, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, L. L. Bean, 3M, Merck, Mervyn's, Motorola, Network Appliance, Northrop Grumman, Roche Bioscience, Siemens, Sun Microsystems, Toyota, the U.S. Postal Service, United Way.

About the Audiobook:

Title:    Leader's Legacy

Author:    J. Kouzes & B. Posner

Format:    4 CD/4 hours

Price:    $29.98 (US) / $38.98 (CAN)

ISBN:    1-59659-084-X

Available:    November 2006

Published by Gildan Media Corp. The title is available at all fine book retailers, on-line and as a download at iTunes and www.audible.com

* Also published this month by Gildan Media: Blue Ocean Strategy and Automatic Wealth for Grads.

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