Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It, Revised Edition

Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It, Revised Edition | James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner | book for corporate america

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	Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It, Revised Edition James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner Jossey-Bass, 2003 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 11 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

"Leadership is personal. It's not about the corporation, the community, or the country. It's about you. If people don't believe in the messenger, they won't believe the message. If people don't believe in you, they won't believe in what you say. And if it's about you, then it's about your beliefs, your values, your principles."-- from Credibility
In this best-selling book, Kouzes and Posner (authors of The Leadership Challenge), explain why leadership is above all a relationship, with credibility as the cornerstone. They provide rich examples of real managers in action and reveal the six key disciplines and related practices that strengthen a leader's capacity for developing and sustaining credibility. Kouzes and Posner show how leaders can encourage greater initiative, risk-taking, and productivity by demonstrating trust in employees and resolving conflicts on the basis of principles, not positions.

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Great Book!

This book is excellent. That is not only my opinion, but the opinion of numerous colleagues who have read the book based on my recommendation. Trust (credibility) is an absolutely critical attribute for an effective leader. This book covers all the bases with regard to gaining, maintaining, and restoring credibility. I highly recommend this book to everyone who is in any position of leadership.

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Credibility is a leadership book based on the thought that through honesty, competence, and valuing people, leaders can be most effective. When credible leadership exists, people have a strong desire to follow their leaders, not just because they have to, but because they want to. When employees are committed to their leader, they are committed to the success of their company as well.

The book is easy to read and presents many interesting case studies and profiles of companies and leaders who apply this philosophy. Divided into sections, the book explains the six disciplines of credibility: discovering yourself, appreciating constituents, affirming shared values, developing capacity, serving a purpose, and sustaining hope. Useful applications of the theory and "next step" action plans are provided to help readers gain credibility in their own leadership roles. Unfortunately the book is a bit dated, as it was published in 1993.

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Leadership is still a Relationship

Starting with the headline, 'Leadership is a Relationship'; Authors Kouzes & Posner demonstrate that Credibility is the foundation of any sound relationship, but particularly between leaders and their constituents. Using credibility to represent a combination of admired leadership characteristics - honest, forward-looking, inspiring, and competent, etc. - the authors of "The Leadership Challenge" declare the six disciplines of credibility to be:
1. Discovering your self
2. Appreciating constituents
3. Affirming shared values
4. Developing capacity
5. Serving a purpose
6. Sustaining hope
The authors then devote a chapter to each of these disciplines, first providing definitional understanding, before outlining steps for developing the discipline.

Although the original writing of this book is about 15 years old, the message is more important today than ever. As defined in this book, leadership credibility is much the same as `trust' in the recently published book, The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything by Stephen M. R. Covey. Both of the books should leave you with a clear understanding that; leadership is relational, this trust/credibility component is crucial, it all starts with knowing and being responsible for who you are, and purpose is its heart. Not a bad success formula for any relationship, business or otherwise. This book is recommended for anyone wanting to learn the underpinnings of relationships.

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Needs Freshening

Kouzes and Posner do a good job of outlining the importance of Credility to leadership, but this book could use a post-September-11 update. Especially in light of such serious and public, ethical bumbling as Enron and Global Crossing, the authors' advice often sounds candy-coated and overly optimistic. Developing credibility as a leader is a complex process, and is even more important in today's celebrity CEO climate. The book overlooks that fact that a leader can appear credible to one group but not to another, furthering divisiveness in an organization. (See American politics for more information.) But, the book does a good service by making us think about what it means to be credible, honest and ethical in business, which is something that is often deep below the surface of everyday operations. Aspiring to what is written in this book is an admirable goal for any leader.

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