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 our unpredictable global business environment, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner--two of the country's premier leadership experts--have completely revised and updated their classic book. Building on the knowledge base of their previous books, the third edition of The Leadership Challenge is grounded in extensive research and based on interviews with all kinds of leaders at all levels in public and private organizations from around the world. In this edition, the authors emphasize that the fundamentals of leadership are the same today as they were in the 1980s, and as they've probably been for centuries. In that sense, nothing's new. Leadership is not a fad. While the content of leadership has not changed, the context has-and in some cases, changed dramatically.

詹姆士•庫塞基

湯姆彼得斯公司的退休名譽主席，聖克拉拉大學李維商學研究所創新和創業精神中心執行研究員。

貝瑞•波斯納

李維商學研究所所長，聖克拉拉大學的領導統御教授，他曾在此得過無數個教學獎和創新獎，包括該學院和該大學的最高榮譽教職獎。詹姆士和貝瑞曾被國際管理會議提名為2001年威爾玻•麥肯費里獎的得獎人。這項殊榮讓他們榮登為大師級人物，與肯•布蘭察、彼得•杜拉克、艾德華•戴明、法蘭西斯•黑森賓、李•艾科卡、羅莎貝絲•摩斯•坎特、諾曼•文森•皮爾等歷屆得獎人並駕其驅。他們還曾聯手開發出一套可用於評估領導行為的全方位問卷：領導統御實務要領目錄（Leadership Practices Inventory）（簡稱LPI）。LPI堪稱是全世界最被廣泛運用的領導評估辦法之一。

二人也是會議中的演說常客，曾為許多組織舉辦過領導潛能的開發課程。尤其詹姆士•庫塞基不僅是備受尊崇的領導統御學者和經驗老到的主管，也曾被《華爾街日報》推崇為美國企業最想延攬的十二名授課者之一。