Skip to Main Content
Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It: Why People Demand it
book

Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It: Why People Demand it

by James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
August 2011
Beginner content levelBeginner
272 pages
5h 54m
English
Jossey-Bass
Content preview from Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It: Why People Demand it

Find Common Ground

Leaders are challenged to achieve what the late John W. Gardner, leadership scholar, founder of Common Cause, and adviser to six U.S. presidents, called “wholeness incorporating diversity.” In his commencement address to the centennial graduation class at Stanford University, he told graduates:

[The goal is] not to achieve wholeness by suppressing diversity, nor to make wholeness impossible by enthroning diversity, but to preserve both. Each element in the diversity must be respected, but each must ask itself sincerely what it can contribute to the whole. I don't think it is venturing beyond the truth to say that “wholeness incorporating diversity” defines the transcendent task for our generation.4

One of the most common mistakes ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Leadership Two Words at a Time

Leadership Two Words at a Time

Bill Treasurer, Elaine Biech

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781118098387Purchase book