In this episode, you’ll discover:

• His recommended books to improving your leadership skills
• The scientific approach to understanding great leadership found in The Leadership Challenge
• What leaders are doing when they're at their best
• The most frequently asked questions among execs looking to improve their team's engagement
• Word tricks that you can use everyday to improve your leadership skills

When you ask if someone is a great leader, it's often difficult to put into quantitative terms what that really means. Usually, it's a "gut-feeling" that gives a thumbs up or down on whether you admire that person's leadership qualities. 

Our guest this week, Jim Kouzes, has authored over a dozen books providing concrete statistical data on what qualities ACTUALLY make people the best leaders for their organization.

His first book, The Leadership Challenge, has sold more than 2 million copies in 20 languages for a reason. It offers the most thorough and in depth analysis on the topic of leadership that has ever been compiled.

Jim was labeled by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best executive educators in the US, and currently serves as the Dean’s Executive Fellow of Leadership Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University.

Short on time? Here's a two-minute takeaway summary from the interview

Links from the Show:

• Connect with Jim on Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn
• Leadership Challenge by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner | Website
• Learning Leadership by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner 
• Leadership Practices Inventory
• Six Sigma Process
• Humans Are Underrated By Geoff Colvin
• Grit By Angela Duckworth
• Peak By Anders Ericsson
• Originals By Adam Grant

Those Mentioned:

• Barry Posner
• Geoff Colvin
• Angela Duckworth
• Anders Ericsson
• Adam Grant