Boxer Book Club
The current Boxer Book Club selection is A Leaders Legacy by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner.
About the Book
In this provocative book, leadership experts and authors of the best-selling The Leadership Challenge, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner take on a unique challenge and explore the question of leadership and legacy. Kouzes and Posner examine in twenty-two chapters the critical questions all leaders must ask themselves in order to leave a lasting impact.
These powerful essays are grouped into four categories: Significance, Relationships, Aspirations, and Courage. In each essay the authors consider a thorny and often ambiguous issue with which today’s leaders must grapple issues—such as how leaders serve and sacrifice, why leaders need loving critics, why leaders should want to be liked, why leaders can't take trust for granted, why it’s not just the leader’s vision, why failure is always an option, why it takes courage to “make a life,” how to liberate the leader in everyone, and ultimately, how the legacy you leave is the life you lead.
--From Jossey-Bass
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You can order the book from Pacific University's Bookstore.
About the Authors
Jim Kouzes is an Executive Fellow at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University.
Barry Posner is dean of the Leavey School of Business and professor of leadership at Santa Clara University.
Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner are authors of the award-winning and best-selling book The Leadership Challenge, as well as the widely used Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI).
How This Book Was Selected
Boxer Book Club selections are determined by the Community Relations Committee of the Alumni Association Board of Directors. The current reading was chosen upon the recommendation of President Phil Creighton.
Discussion
Are you reading or have you read A Leader's Legacy? Post your comments on the Pacific Alumni Blog.