Great Leadership Creates Great Workplaces

How can you inspire your employees to the high levels ofengagement that drive strong results across the board? Drawing on over 30 years of research and data from more than twomillion constituents around the world, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner,the bestselling authors of The Leadership Challenge, expandon their work with The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership tocreate a new metric—Positive WorkplaceAttitudes—addressing how leaders affect employee engagement.Their research shows how positive feelings about being part of theworkplace strongly influence people's willingness to applydiscretionary effort to their work. People put forth much moreeffort for their best leaders and very little for their worstleaders. Leaders who more frequently exhibit exemplary practicesfoster engagement and inspire people to go from acceptable to goodand even to great. Filled with new findings from Kouzes and Posner's originalresearch, Great Leadership Creates Great Workplaces expandsthe reach of The Leadership Challenge to address pressing,critical issues around employee engagement, and how leaders canimprove it to outperform the competition.