The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations, 5th Edition

INTRODUCTION

Making Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations

LEADERS GET PEOPLE MOVING. They energize and mobilize. 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. Leadership 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 ...