THE LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations

Abstract

LEADERS GET PEOPLE MOVING. They energize and mobi lize. They take people and organizations to places they have never been before. Leadership is not a fad, and the leadership challenge never goes away. In uncertain and turbulent times, accepting that challenge is the only antidote to chaos, stagnation, and disintegration. Times change, problems change, technologies change, and people change. Leader ship endures. Teams, organizations, and communities need people to step up and take charge. That is why we first wrote The Leadership Challenge, and why we found it imperative to write this fifth edition. Change is the province of leaders. 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. Without leadership there would not be the extraordinary efforts necessary to solve existing problems and realize unimagined THE LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE opportunities. We have today, at best, only faint clues of what the future may hold, but we are confident that without leadership the possibilities will neither be envisioned nor attained