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Books by Barry Z. Posner

Barry Z. Posner is the Accolti Endowed Professor of Leadership at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, where he has also served as dean in the past. An internationally renowned scholar and educator, he has authored more than 100 research articles. With his longtime friend and colleague James Kouzes, he has also coauthored many award-winning books, including the classic “The Leadership Challenge.”

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The Leadership Challenge

Barry Z. Posner

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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