Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, internationally recognized experts in the field of leadership and authors of the best-selling Leadership Challenge, explore a variety of today's most critical and difficult leadership issues. Unlike their other books, which follow The Leadership Challenge model directly, this book contains 22 short chapters on a variety of leadership-related topics, illustrated with stories from their extensive experience working with leaders from top organizations and their vast research base.

Chapters include:
- Leaders Serve and Sacrifice
- The Best Leaders Are Teachers
- We All Need Loving Critics
- You Are The Most Important Leader
- Leadership Is Personal
- Leaders Should Want to Be Liked
- When You Don’t See Eye to Eye, Seek to Understand
- You Can’t Take Trust for Granted
- Forward-Looking Is a Leadership Prerequisite
- Liberate the Leader in Everyone
- Leaders Are Followers, Too
- You Can’t Plan to Be Courageous, But You Can Choose It
- Failure Is Always an Option
- The Courage to Be Human
- The Legacy You Leave Is the Life You Lead