The Leadership Challenge Sixth Edition

By: James M. Kouzes, Barry Posner

Narrated by: Brian Holsopple

Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins

Publisher's Summary

The most trusted source of leadership wisdom, updated to address today's realities.

The Leadership Challenge is the gold-standard manual for effective leadership, grounded in research and written by the premier authorities in the field. With deep insight into the complex interpersonal dynamics of the workplace, this book positions leadership both as a skill to be learned and as a relationship that must be nurtured to reach its full potential. This new sixth edition has been revised to address current challenges and includes more international examples and a laser focus on business issues; you'll learn how extraordinary leaders accomplish extraordinary things and how to develop your leadership skills and style to deliver quality results every time. Engaging stories delve into the fundamental roles that great leaders fulfill, and simple frameworks provide a primer for those who seek continuous improvement; by internalizing key insights and putting concepts into action, you'll become a more effective, more impactful leader.

A good leader gets things done; a great leader aspires, inspires, and achieves more. This book highlights the differences between good and great, and shows you how to bridge the chasm between getting things done and making things happen.

• Gain deep insight into leadership's critical role in organizational health
• Navigate the shift toward team-oriented work relationships
• Motivate and inspire to break through the pervasive new cynicism
• Leverage the electronic global village to deliver better results

Business is evolving at an increasingly rapid rate, and leaders must keep pace with the changes or risk stagnation. People work differently, are motivated differently, and have different expectations today - business as usual is quickly losing its effectiveness. The Leadership Challenge helps you stay current, relevant, and effective in the modern workplace.

©2017 James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner (P)2017 Audible, Inc.

Great info. but this reader tough to listen to

All of the information is great about Leadership in this book. I suggest to but the companion or hard copy. Sixth edition has some new examples which is great. This edition's reader not as good as the authors reading the book in previous edition.

3 of 3 people found this review helpful

One of the worst narrators

Listening to this book was like hearing a high-timber loud person recounting a panicky situation for nearly 10 hours. What a poor quality production.

6 of 7 people found this review helpful

A classic of any administration curriculum

This book was required text for one of my undergraduate classes in leadership. I didn't care about the reader, but the content is great. I have been in a leadership pretty much since the beginning of my professional life, due to this most of the concepts of this book are familiar to me, but there are the few "I wish I had known before" moments.

Although this book is old, it is fresh because the writers continually update it with current relevant examples and information.

If this is a textbook, then you have no alternative, but I think it is a worthy listening even if it is just for the curious or the rest that hold or wish to hold a leadership position.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Nice addition

The book reinforced as well as added leadership principles that I can put into use today. Definitely adding to my professional Library.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

A must!

This is a must for anyone wanting to learn about leadership and grow as a leader.

Good leadership book

I had to read this for one of my classes. It's definitely an interesting book and a good listen.

One of the best Leadership Books

Of all the leadership books I have read and listened to this one made a huge impact. The points are memorable the stories relevant and it felt like a lot of thought was put into organizing this books.
I would highly recommend the book to anyone searching for guidance or to reinforce the values they already have.

Exemplary leadership in a nutshell.

Tspherix R&D, fueled by this enthusiastic launchpad for leadership is proud to absorb the values presented in this production. Thank you for this great piece of precise encouragement- we look forward to future leadership goals and futures.

Great content. But slow paced.

Loved the content. Good tried-and-true practices. The narrator sounded like he was from NPR. I sped it up to 1.5 times just to keep interested.

Promotional Process preparation

I found that listening to the audible book while simultaneously reading the book help to retain a lot of helpful information. While the material is very dry, it is nonetheless very important reading

Like listening to a robot - not very engaging

Is there anything you would change about this book?

I would change the narrator. The book has some good info, but it was hard to concentrate to what was being said as the narrator was very monotone like a robot. No emotion at all.

How could the performance have been better?

The book is not engaging. I found my mind was drifting off to think about other things. This is unlike the books from Harvard Business Review who are really engaging and can listen with ease.

Was The Leadership Challenge Sixth Edition worth the listening time?

No. I have the book too which is good, but I didn;t like the audio book at all.

Any additional comments?

Get the book instead.