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Barry Posner

Barry Posner's website (official or not) http://business.scu.edu/faculty/profiles/posnerprofile.htm
subjects Barry Posner writes about Leadership, Miscellaneous
Barry Posner's profile Dean of the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University, located in the heart of Silicon Valley.

He is the co-author of the award-winning and best-selling leadership book: The Leadership Challenge: How to Keep Getting Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations. Described as a groundbreaking research study, The Leadership Challenge combines keen insights with practical applications and captures both why and how leadership is everyone's business. With over one million copies in print, this book has been the featured selection of several book clubs, named book-of-the-year by the American Council of Health Care Executives, received the Critic's Choice Award from the nation's book review editors, and translated into over 15 foreign languages.

The Leadership Practices Inventory has been called "the most reliable, up-to-date leadership instrument available today." Barry has also co-authored three other award-winning, inspiring and practical books on leadership: Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It; Encouraging the Heart: A Leaders Guide to Recognizing and Rewarding Others; and The Leadership Challenge Planner: An Action Guide to Achieving Your Personal Best.

Barry is an international renowned scholar who has published more than 80 research and practitioner-oriented articles, in such journals as the: Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Relations, Personnel Psychology, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and the like. He is currently on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Business Ethics and Leadership Review, and section editor for the Journal of Management Inquiry. Barry, along with his co-author Jim Kouzes, received the International Management Council's award as the nation's top management and leadership educators (previous recipients have included Peter Drucker, Ken Blanchard, Steve Covey, Norman Vincent Peale, Edward Deming, Tom Peters, and Rosabeth Moss Kanter).

He serves on the Board of Directors for the San Jose Repertory Theatre and asa a Public Director for the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Barry has previously served on the boards of Public Allies (Silicon Valley), Big Brothers Big Sisters of Santa Clara County, The Center for Excellence in Nonprofits, Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity, along with several start-up companies.

Barry received his undergraduate degree in political science from UCSB, his master's degree from the Ohio State University in public administration, and his Ph.D. in organizational behavior and administrative theory from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

At Santa Clara he has received the Dean's Award for Exemplary Service, the President's Distinguished Faculty Award, and several outstanding teaching and leadership honors.

He is a warm and engaging conference speaker and dynamic workshop facilitator, and has worked with such organizations as: Alcoa, Applied Materials, Arco, Charles Schwab, Conference Board of Canada, Hewlett-Packard, Kaiser Permanente Health Care, L.L. Bean, Levi Strauss, Lockheed Martin, Merck, Mervyn's, Motorola, Network Appliance, TRW, Trader Joe's, US Postal Service, among others. He has made presentations and conducted workshops across the U.S., and around the globe from Canada, Mexico and Europe to the Far East, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.


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Encouraging the Heart: A Leader's Guide to Rewarding and Recognizing Others
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All too often, simple acts of human kindness are often overlooked and under utilized by people in leadership roles. Advising mutual respect and recognition of accomplishments, Encouraging the Heart...

Ranking at Amazon 210551
 Jossey-Bass
 January 2003 - Paperback
 Leadership
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Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It, Revised Edition
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"Leadership is personal. It's not about the corporation, the community, or the country. It's about you. If people don't believe in the messenger, they won't believe the message. If people don't...

Ranking at Amazon 202446
 Jossey-Bass
 January 2003 - Paperback
 Leadership
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The Leadership Challenge, Third Edition
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When it was initially written in 1987, few could have predicted that The Leadership Challenge would become one of the best-selling leadership books of all time. Now, faced with the new challenges of...

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 Jossey-Bass
 August 2002 - Hardcover
 Miscellaneous
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Leadership Practices Inventory--Individual Contributor
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Leadership is learnable and teachable . . . for everyone! Leadership skills are essential for individuals at any level of an organization. Improve your leadership skills with Leadership Practices

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 Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer
 September 2001 - Paperback
 Leadership
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The Leadership Practices Inventory
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Leadership is everyone's business! Everyone must function as a leader at some time and in some arena--whether in an organization, an agency, a task force, a committee, a community group, or even a...

Ranking at Amazon 20220057
 Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer
 April 2001 - Paperback
 Leadership
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The Leadership Challenge Planner: An Action Guide to Achieving Your Personal Best
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From the legAndary authors of The Leadership Challenge comes this practical implementation tool you'll use to plan your next major project! Over one million professionals have used Kouzes and...

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 Jossey-Bass
 April 1999 - Paperback
 Leadership
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The Team Leadership Practices Inventory (Team LPI), Team Package
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These convenient computer scoring programs save you the time of scoring by hand so you can spAnd more time reviewing results with participants. In addition to providing standard results, these...

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 Jossey-Bass
 August 1997 - Paperback
 Leadership
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The Leadership Challenge: How to Keep Getting Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations
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Completely revised and updated I not only enjoyed it...I found myself constantly nodding and saying to myself, 'That's right! That's how it's done! That's what it feels like!' You certainly captured...

Ranking at Amazon 610573
 Jossey-Bass
 November 1996 - Paperback
 Leadership
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Achieving Credibility: The Key to Effective Leadership
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Describes the practices that strengthen credibility in a business environment, using case histories to illustrate their application.

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 Nightingale-Conant Corp
 December 1995 - Audio Cassette
 Leadership
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Leadership Challenge: How to Get Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations
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Through research, interviews and the experience of hundreds of managers, Kouzes and Posner show how leadership can be learned and mastered by all. "Readable, interesting, and up-to-date. Highly...

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 Jossey-Bass
 July 1990 - Paperback
 Leadership
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