Learning Leadership

Just like The Leadership Challenge, Kouzes and Posner fill Learning Leadership with practical, hands-on leadership applications. This book falls a little short of The Leadership Challenge though, simply because it feels, at times, redundant.

I used this book as part of a graduate course on leadership at the university level. Along with my students, I felt the book really found its footing in the last two sections. The material toward the end felt more like a conversation between authors and reader - a mentor/mentee type of discussion. This feels like when Kouzes and Posner are in their element.

I appreciated the self-coaching actions at the end of each chapter. Upon completing the reading, these actions could spur an entirely different opinion of the book over time should they be integrated into one's personal leadership development.