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Highlights the voting records of members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives for bills, resolutions, and amendments that support international religious freedom...
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U.S. Senate & House IRF Voting Records
1998 IRF Act Retrospective
IRFA 20th Anniversary RetrospectiveThis 20th Anniversary Retrospective of the 1989 IRF Act retraces the collaborative efforts that helped integrate international religious freedom within U.S. foreign policy.
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Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who chose to follow. Sometimes the relationship is one-to-one. Sometimes it’s one-to-many. But regardless of whether the number is one or one thousand, leadership is a relationship.
01/01/2005
2005
Web
Ethical Leaders: An Essay about Being in Love
Jim Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
What it means to be an ethical leader is the focus of this paper. Leadership is more than an affair of the head, but fundamentally also one of the heart. Leaders are in love. Four essential and practical considerations are presented for discovering, developing, and using this perspective. Read more...
01/01/1992
1992
Journal of Business Ethics
PDF
A prescription for leading in cynical times
Jim Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
While there is nothing inherently wrong in a CEO's command to" Just believe me," there may be something horribly wrong with the CEO-for example, a lack of honesty, credibility or even …
2004
Ivey Business Journal, nwlc.org
PDF
Character and servant leadership: Ten characteristics of effective, caring leaders
LC Spears
The journal of virtues & leadership- academia.edu
2010
PDF
Leadership, leadership styles, and servant leadership
F Gandolfi, S Stone
… and leadership styles are, identify critical attributes of effective leadership, and demonstrate that servant leadership meets the criteria for effective leadership. …
2018
Journal of Management Research
PDF
Servant-leadership and community leadership in the 21st century
SR Covey
… Covey describes what he calls the four roles of leadership—… of leadership is the one that Robert K. Greenleaf described, and that true servant-leadership produces servant-leadership in …
2006
The International Journal of Servant-Leadership
PDF
The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations (5th Edition)
Jim Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
"The Leadership Challenge is about how leaders mobilize others to want to get
extraordinary things done in organizations. It's about the practices leaders use to
transform values into actions, visions into realities, obstacles into innovations,
separateness into solidarity, and risks into rewards. It's about leadership that
makes a positive difference in the workplace and creates the climate in which
people turn challenging opportunities into remarkable successes."
PDF
The Leadership Challenge Workbook (3rd Ed)
Jim Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
A blend of leadership development, project management, and execution, this perfect companion to the bestselling The Leadership Challenge has been refreshed in time for the 25th Anniversary of this trusted leadership development program. Updated with a new global perspective and new research, it is the ultimate change leader's workbook.
31/07/2012
2017
Web
Transformational Leadership across Cultures: Follower Perception and Satisfaction
Arran Caza, Brianna B. Caza, and Barry Z. Posner
Leading people from diverse cultures is centrally important in organizations. This study investigates the extent to which transformational leadership behaviors are universal: by examining if leaders and followers perceive transformational leadership behaviors the same way
across cultures; and by determining if the magnitude of satisfaction that followers derive from transformational leadership behavior is the same across cultures.
19/03/2021
2021
Administrative Sciences 11: 32
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Christian Reflections on the Leadership Challenge
Jim Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
Christian Reflections on The Leadership Challenge is a faith-based companion to the best-selling leadership book of all time--The Leadership Challenge. Grounded in Jim and Barry’s time-tested research, Christian Reflections on The Leadership Challenge describes their Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership ® --Model the Way, Inspire a Shared Vision, Challenge the Process, Enable Others to Act, and Encourage the Heart—and offers practical guidance and inspiring examples about how Christian leaders can have a powerful impact in their workplaces, communities, and congregations by bringing their faith into their leadership.
01/04/2004
2004
Wiley
Book (Purchase)
Learning Leadership: The Five Fundamentals of Becoming an Exemplary Leader
Jim Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
"Learning Leadership: The Five Fundamentals of Becoming an Exemplary Leader (ISBN: 978-1-119-14428-1; Wiley; May 2016) is a comprehensive guide to unleashing the inner-leader in us all and to building a solid foundation for a lifetime of leadership growth and mastery. The book offers a concrete framework to help individuals of all levels, functions, and backgrounds take charge of their own leadership development and become the best leaders they can be. Arguing that all individuals are born with the capacity to lead, Kouzes and Posner provide readers with a practical series of actions and specific coaching tips for harnessing that capacity and creating a context in which they can excel...
2016
Journal of Applied Christian Leadership
PDF
The Student Leadership Challenge: Five Practices for Becoming an Exemplary Leader (3rd Ed)
Jim Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
Real-world leadership training for real-world students. The Student Leadership Challenge tailors one of the world’s most respected leadership models to students’ unique needs, and provides a proven pathway to success. Based on The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership, this book merges solid research with personal stories from real-world student leaders to help students develop the critical skills they need to lead both now and after graduation.
07/03/2018
2018
PDF
Good to Great™ Diagnostic Tool
Jim Collins
Discuss and determine where you are on your journey from good to great.
PDF
Vision Framework
Jim Collins
Articulate your organization's vision.
PDF
Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory (Chps 1&2)
Tod Bolsinger
Explorers Lewis and Clark had to adapt. While they had prepared to find a waterway to the Pacific Ocean, instead they found themselves in the Rocky Mountains. You too may feel that you are leading in a cultural context you were not expecting. You may even feel that your training holds you back more often than it carries you along. Drawing from his extensive experience as a pastor and consultant, Tod Bolsinger brings decades of expertise in guiding churches and organizations through uncharted territory...
14/12/2015
2015
PDF
Canoeing the Mountains: Study Guide
Tod Bolsinger
Prepared for by Flourish San Diego, this study guide is designed to do two things:
1. Facilitate deep reflection for you and your team on the concepts presented in the book.
2. Help your leaders begin the process of transformational leadership by engaging in team
exercises.
2018
PDF
Tipping Point Leadership
W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne
Leaders like Bratton know how to reach the organization's tipping point without extra resources. They can achieve a great deal with the resources they have.
01/04/2003
2003
Harvard Business Review
PDF
HBR’s Must-Reads on Managing People
Multiple authors
“If you read nothing else on managing people, read these best-selling articles.”
2011
Harvard Business Review
An Instructor's Guide to The Leadership Challenge
Jim Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
1995
The Jossey-Bass Management Series
PDF
Leadership Is in the Eye of the Follower
Jim Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
Successful leadership depends far more on the follower's perception of the leader than on the leader's abilities. Followers, not the leader, determine when some-one possesses the qualities of leadership. In other words, leadership is in the eye of the follower.
2003
The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Leadership Development Tools -John Wiley & Sons
PDF
From Inside Out: Beyond Teaching About Leadership
Barry Z. Posner
Teaching about leadership is necessary to enable others to lead effectively, but it is not sufficient. Not sufficient in the sense that leadership requires doing and leadership development therefore requires action-learning (or learning on the job) to find one’s voice, develop, and hone one’s skills.
