Reccomendations for Team Lead: Leading Teams with the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership

u01a1 Professional_Challenge Recommendations for Team Lead (Attempt 1) Leading Teams with the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership
Philip Melcheck
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MBA6230: Leading Teams

Leading Teams with the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership
Recommendations for Team Lead
The five practices of exemplary leadership are the topic of much research involving the leadership of people, teams, and organizations in today’s global economy. Few could have predicted that The Leadership Challenge would become one of the best-selling leadership books of all time. Now, faced with the new challenges of our unpredictable global business environment, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner--two of the country 's premier leadership experts--have completely revised and updated their classic book explaining the five best practices for exemplary leadership. Building on the knowledge base of their previous books, the third edition of The Leadership Challenge is grounded in extensive research and based on interviews with all kinds of leaders at all levels in public and private organizations from around the world. In this edition, the authors emphasize that the fundamentals of leadership are the same today as they were in the 1980s, and as they have probably been for centuries. In that sense, nothing is new. Leadership is not a fad. While the content of leadership has not changed, the context has-and in some cases, changed dramatically.
The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership: A Description
Kouzes and Posner (2007, p. 14) describe the five practices of exemplary leadership: Model the way, inspire a shared vision, challenge the process, enable others to act and encourage the heart. Under each of the five practices of exemplary leadership, there is a list of ten commitment behaviors. The intent of these behaviors is to reflect the corresponding leadership practice. The ten commitment behaviors that underlie the five practices of exemplary leadership, when applied

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