Great Leadership Creates Great Workplaces

By James M. KOUZES and Barry Z. Posner

How can you inspire your employees to the high levels of engagement that drive strong results across the board?

Drawing on over 30 years of research and data from more than two million constituents around the world, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, the bestselling authors of The Leadership Challenge, expand on their work with The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership to create a new metricPositive Workplace Attitudesaddressing how leaders affect employee engagement. Their research shows how positive feelings about being part of the workplace strongly influence people's willingness to apply discretionary effort to their work. People put forth much more effort for their best leaders and very little for their worst leaders. Leaders who more frequently exhibit exemplary practices foster engagement and inspire people to go from acceptable to good and even to great.

Filled with new findings from Kouzes and Posner's original research, Great Leadership Creates Great Workplaces expands the reach of The Leadership Challenge to address pressing, critical issues around employee engagement, and how leaders can improve it to outperform the competition.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wiley
• Release date: May 28, 2013
• ISBN: 9781118727959

Reviews for Great Leadership Creates Great Workplaces

[newmans2001 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I would agree with much of Iacobus view, especially "Unfortunately there is little about the Colosseum ". I have read about it some and hoped to learn more. This is more a history of Rome and not a good one, and briefly some of the social situations that may have influenced the Colosseum, but the author seems to have forgotten the title of the book..

[schmerguls · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

1105 The Colosseum, by Peter Quennell and the Editors of the Newsweek Book Division (read 3 Mar 1971) This is a "made up" book but I was impressed by some of it. Naturally, the authors have to strain some to write a whole book about the Colosseum--but it is a structure unbelievably rich in history. It is hard to picture it as it was before 1933--when the surrounding buildings were cleared away. The most moving of all comments on the Colosseum in the book is Byron's in Childe Harold which ends:"...Heroes have trod this spot--'tis on their dust ye stand." All in all, a good book to own.