Nearly a decade after their first best-selling exploration of what leaders actually do, leadership experts and teachers Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner find an even more urgent need for solid leadership skills. Drawing on a wealth of new data, they offer up-to-the minute insight into the organizational challenges inherent in our climate of dizzying change.      

"At a time when words like ′inspiration′ or ′spirit′ are sometimes used with embarrassment, the authors restore those lofty concepts to their rightful place at the core of successful business.′′ (Norman Lear, chairman and CEO, Act III Communications) 

"Kouzes and Posner demonstrate that when ordinary business people aspire to extraordinary achievements they can expand the realm of what′s possible.′′ (Kathy Meyer, executive director, The Business Enterprise Trust) 

"The Leadership Challenge changed the direction of Motorola Semiconductor′s World Marketing Organization." (Charles E. Thompson, senior vice president, director world marketing, Semiconductor Products Sector, Motorola Inc.)