Learning Leadership: The Five Fundamentals Of Becoming An Exemplary Leader

Uncover the extraordinary leader in you with straightforward exercises and advice from two of the world’s foremost leadership experts. From the bestselling authors of The Leadership Challenge and over a dozen award-winning leadership books, comes a new book that examines the fundamental question: How do people learn to become leaders? Learning The Five Fundamentals Of Becoming An Exemplary Leader is a comprehensive guide to unleashing the inner leader in us all and 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, bestselling authors 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 society today. Learning Leadership provides 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 they can understand and apply the fundamentals for becoming the best leaders they can be. Learning The Five Fundamentals Of Becoming An Exemplary Leader is divided into digestible bite-sized chapters that encourage daily actions to become a better leader. Kouzes and Posner offer unrivaled insights into what it means to become an exemplary leader today 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 become 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.