The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations (J-B Leadership Challenge: Kouzes/Posner)

The LPI data supports this assertation. It shows that the motivational levels of direct reports increase in direct proportion to the extent they indicate their leader provides them with the freedom to decide how best to do their work.

It is the work of leaders to inspire people to do things differently, to struggle against uncertain odds, and to persevere toward a misty image of a better future.

Only adaptive individuals and organizations will thrive in today's dynamic global environment. Leaders must support more and more individual discretion to meet the changing demands of customers, clients, suppliers, and other stakeholders, which increases the requirement to use and expand people's talents and experience.

Embedded within The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership are essential behaviors that serve as the basis for becoming an exemplary leader. We call these the Ten Commitments of Exemplary Leadership

One study involving more than 20,000 people around the world indicated that when they felt safe, there was a 347 percent increase in the probability of highly engaged employees, a 154 percent increase in great work, and a 33 percent decrease in moderate to severe burnout.28 When

people always need to know the “why” for what they are being asked to do.

Sharing information is another important educational tactic. This factor showed up prominently on the list of what made people feel powerful and made them feel powerless when absent.

framing the question more about the process than about herself led to “many sidebar ‘deeper' conversations being initiated,

leadership is fundamentally a relationship, and hence it is important to understand and appreciate what people look for in an individual they would be willing to follow.