The reviewers have raved about its relevance. The critics have ranted about the power of its 25 years of leadership study. And book readers have agreed that the fourth edition of The Leadership Challenge continues to be the most important, research-based study of leadership available.

Now you can listen to the real leadership experts. In podcasts and online interviews, authors Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner discuss the newly released fourth edition of their all-time classic, The Leadership Challenge—the gold standard for research-based leadership and the premier resource on becoming a leader. Click on the links below to hear what these leadership authorities have to say about what it takes to become an effective leader. Across cultures, in any language, at any level of the organization, leadership remains everyone’s business.

Neal Mailett, Editor at Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, takes you behind the scenes to talk with the authors about how the context of leadership may change, but The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® remain constant—from China to London to Mexico and beyond.
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Celebrating a 25-year experiment on leadership with online leadership podcast resource, CultivateGreatness.com, Jim Kouzes discusses some of what he and co-author Barry Posner have learned after 12,000 cases and 250,000 interviews about the key traits of leaders.
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Leadership Around the World—an interview with Jim Kouzes focuses on the world at large: what the research suggests about the characteristics of leaders all developed countries value and why China is such a huge mystery to us in the West.
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Jim Kouzes, in a video interview with Brooke Campanelli, host of Expanded Books, offers essential tips on what it takes to become an effective leader.
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