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Books by James M. Kouzes

James M. Kouzes is the Dean's Executive Fellow of Leadership, Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. Considered one of the 12 best executive educators by the Wall Street Journal, Kouzes is the recipient of many leadership awards. With his longtime friend and colleague Barry Posner, he has co-authored more than a dozen award-winning leadership books, including the perennial bestseller “The Leadership Challenge.”

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The Leadership Challenge

James M. Kouzes

First published in 1987 – and progressively revised and updated through six editions – “The Leadership Challenge” is one of the classic evidence-based, research-backed guides for effective leadership. It is, according to its authors Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, a book “about the practices leaders use to transform values into actions, visions into realities, obstacles into innovations, separateness into solidarity, and risks into rewards.”

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