Summary, Analysis & Review of James Kouzes’s & Barry Posner’s The Leadership Challenge by Instaread Preview: The Leadership Challenge by James Kouzes and Barry Posner takes a close look at the factors that contribute to strong leadership in a variety of fields. In their research, Kouzes and Posner found that there are five practices that leaders commonly list as key to moments when they were effective leaders. Central to every leader’s success is credibility, which is related to the characteristics that followers seek in their leaders. These include honesty, a focus on the long term, competence, and the ability to inspire others.The first practice is for leaders to demonstrate ideal behavior for the team. They can do so by learning how to express the right values to the team and how to gain the team’s approval of those values. Leaders should visibly uphold these values in both word and deed, then reinforce shared values in a variety of ways…. PLEASE NOTE: This is a Summary, Analysis & Review of the book and NOT the original book. Inside this Summary, Analysis & Review of James Kouzes’s & Barry Posner’s The Leadership Challenge by Instaread Overview of the Book Important People Key Takeaways Analysis of Key Takeaways About the Author With Instaread, you can get the key takeaways and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways and analyze them for your convenience.