Leadership Challenge: An Analysis of Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership

Running Head: LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE
Leadership Challenge
Name of the student
Name of the university
Author’s note

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Table of Contents
1. Author’s viewpoint......................................................................................................................2
2. Author’s purpose.........................................................................................................................2
3. Author’s main point.....................................................................................................................3
4. Author’s conclusions...................................................................................................................4
5. Convergence/ divergence.............................................................................................................5
6. Relevance.....................................................................................................................................6
7. Utilization....................................................................................................................................7
Reference List..................................................................................................................................9

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1. Author’s viewpoint
Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner have been collaborating together for more than thirty years
and they have been studying the leaders, conducting leadership development and researching
leadership in various capacities. The award-winning book ‘The Leadership Challenges' has its
origin in the intensive research project and the authors assumed that by enquiring ordinary
people to explaining the extraordinary experiences, the authors could find the patterns of the
success. The context of the book deals with the analysis of hundreds of case studies of the
leadership based on the personal-best and the experiences of the people recalled about the peak-
leadership experiences. This book contains some preliminary research based on leadership
survey and the questionnaire is of twelve pages and it has thirty-eight open-ended questions as
well. The stories of leadership do not sound like the textbook management; however, these
logical cases do not also have the context of organizing, staffing, directing and controlling. These
stories of personal leadership have the tales of dynamic change with bold actions associated with
this.
2. Author’s purpose
Kouzes and Posner in their book shared a vision is an idea and unique image of the future
for the common good. The purpose of the book is to share the success stories from the
experiences they believed to be shared. The readers can find the success stories from the profit
based firms, mining, agriculture and non-profit firms also. The purpose of the authors is to affirm
the relationship between positive work attitudes and the leadership. The authors articulated the
aspiration theme and the authors identified the trends affecting the work. The authors made
connections with others' leadership as people don’t believe that everyone can make the