Barnabas File

In the introduction to Learning Leadership , the authors—James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner-- share an anecdote. They typically ask a group of 50 people who have come together for leadership development, “How many of you think of yourself as a leader?”  Usually only about 10 percent raise their hands.  Most participants fail to think of themselves as leaders.  This book is designed to help individuals to break the mythological barrier that leadership is only reserved for a special few. If you have read the authors’ The Leadership Challenge or Christian Reflections on The Leadership Challenge , you are familiar with their model of The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership and their Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI).  There is little new here as far as the model goes, but the purpose of this volume to serve as a self-directed guide to becoming an exemplary leader based on the model.  Each chapter is short enough to be read in a few minutes, bu...