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.

Exemplary leaders commit to Foster Collaboration by engaging in these essentials: Create a climate of trust Facilitate relationships

To Set the Example, you need to: Live the shared values Teach others to model the values

leaders create the conditions where people want to join in the adventure.

These five leadership practices—Model the Way, Inspire a Shared Vision, Challenge the Process, Enable Others to Act, and Encourage the Heart—provide an operating system for what people are doing as leaders when they are at their best. There's

Failure is never the objective of any endeavor, of course. Success, however, always requires some amount of learning, and in turn, learning always involves miscalculations, mistakes, and errors.

The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership®: Model the Way

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.

feeling powerful—literally, feeling “able”—comes from a profound sense of being in control of your life.