James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner and Jane Bozarth. Strengthening Credibility: A Leader’s Workbook. Pfeieffer, 2011. Referenced in: Leadership Development Through Character Formation Empowering Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is the companion volume to the highly acclaimed bestseller, Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It: Why People Demand It, which is based on extensive research by
James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It. Revised Edition. Jossey-Bass, 2003. Referenced in: Leadership Development Through Character Formation Empowering Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is the second edition of a business classic coming out of the authors’ extensive research which asked thousands of people the
Bill Thrall, Bruce McNicol and John Lynch, TrueFaced: Trusting God and Others With Who You Truly Are. Revised Edition. NavPress Publishing, 2004. Referenced in: Leadership Development Through Character Formation LifeandLeadership.com Summary This book and the companion resources develop more fully the concept first expressed in Ascent of a Leader / Beyond Your Best, i.e. we
Bill Thrall, Bruce McNicol and John Lynch, Behind the Mask: Reversing the Process of Unresolved Life Issues. Leadership Catalyst, 2005. Referenced in: Leadership Development Through Character Formation LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a brief booklet (64 pages) from True Face that builds on the insights of character development from Ascent of a Leader / Beyond Your
Bill Thrall, Bruce McNicol and Ken McElrath, Beyond Your Best: Develop Your Relationships, Fulfill Your Destiny. Leadership Catalyst, 2003. This is an update to The Ascent of a Leader (1999). See also the related workbook, Beyond the Mask. Referenced in: Leadership Development Through Character Formation LifeandLeadership.com Summary The authors, co-founders of True Face, describe leadership
Bernard Bass and Ronald Riggio, Transformational Leadership, Second Edition. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005. Referenced in: Transformational Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is an important work on the concept of transformational leadership as first expressed by James McGregor Burns in Leadership. At the risk of oversimplification, one might say that Burns introduced the theory and Bass turned
James McGregor Burns, Transforming Leadership. Grove Press, 2004. Prequel: Burns, Leadership (1978) Referenced in: Transformational Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a more recent book by the renowned leadership theorist James McGregor Burns that is an updated expression of the classic theory of transformative leadership. In this case, he sets forth several international leaders as examples
James McGregor Burns, Leadership (Harper Perennial Political Classics). Harper Publishers, 2010. Referenced in: Transformational Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is Burns’ classic work on political history first published in 1978 that introduced the concept of Transformational Leadership. Most authors in leadership studies since this volume reference it as the foundation of modern leadership studies. Burns distinguishes
Ken Jennings, John Stahl-Wert, and Kenneth Blanchard, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions that Will Transform Your Team, Your Business, and Your Community. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004. Referenced in: Servant Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a story about a young leader’s journey into learning and practicing five tenets of servant leadership: Upend the pyramid Raise the
Kenneth Blanchard, Mark Miller and John Maxwell, The Secret: What Great Leaders Know -and Do. Berrett-Koehler, 2004. Referenced in: Servant Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a parable about a manager who learns from her mentor about how to inspire and develop others through “servant leadership.” The story illustrates the empowering, servant leader model. The essential
