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Book Review: The Leadership Challenge by Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes

First written in 1987 by two authors considered to be experts in the field of leadership, The Leadership Challenge has gone to become one the most trusted voices on the subject of leadership as well as an all time best seller leadership book. One of the reasons for this is that the authors, Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes, in the true spirit of leadership, have churned out regular revisions to their original work, continuously adding to and improving upon content based on the ongoing changes in the corporate environment. The classic’s fourth edition has been released ...

Tearoom trade: a study of homosexual encounters in public places book, was written by Laud Humphreys as a Ph.D. dissertation with the title "Tearoom trade." The study aimed at analyzing homosexual's behaviors practiced in public toilets. Humphreys affirmed that the men who took part in homosexuality acts emanated from various social backgrounds. The homosexuals differed in their personal motives and belonged to the categories of either being "straight," "bisexual," or "gay." The study tried to identify the common stereotypes associated with men homosexuality in public places. In the study, he realized that most homosexuals lived normal lives, they had families with ...

Narrative Review

Since I joined school, I have never liked reading books. First, I was slow at reading and books did not interest me. There Are No Children Here is an awesome book to read. The book is easy to read, and its ideas are presented in an easy to understand the matter. Reading about these two boys in a novel and their family was an awesome experience for me. The hardships the family went through are unbelievable. It is inspiring reflecting on how they faced being in poverty /being on welfare, dealing with all their family issues and being black in ...

In a Christian context, leadership is preserved for the most prominent or highly ranked people in the community. Whereas the rest of the people are doomed to the incompetence of leadership. According to Kouzes, 2006 leadership is the ability or procedure to which an individual earns respect and authority to guide the community. For instance, during the lifetime of Jesus Christ traits of good leadership skill were portrayed in all his undertakings. In addition, the article discourages the dominance leadership for specific individuals with the top position and advocates for the creation of the leadership team in accordance to the ...

According to James and Barry, (2004) leadership is an attribute that is only associated with those people who hold top positions in the community and the rest of the people are doomed to the incompetence of leadership. The authors used Jesus Christ’s life experience as a suitable example of the indispensable teaches or lesson for a good leader. In other terms, leadership is the ability or procedure to which an individual becomes a “lifelong learner”. The article discourages the dominance of the individual with the top position and advocates for a leadership team along people’s abilities. For effective and efficient leadership ...

Introduction

In his famous autobiographical book the Hunger of Memory: the Education of Richard Rodriguez, Richard Rodriguez, a renowned public speaker and author expertly illustrates his personal experiences of emotional disconnect and societal alienation. He explores how this has had a tremendous influence on his life from his childhood as a first generation Mexican-American boy.
The main thesis or theme of the book form the author’s point of view is that the society together with the education system in general requires a radical revision for it to be able to produce people who do not have alienation from life like the he ...

Book Review: “The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone,

Summary of the Book
The book entitled “The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone, Especially Ourselves” written by Dan Ariely proffered pertinent issues relative to people’s propensity to cheat, or be dishonest, in various situations and conditions. The contents have been presented in ten chapters and written in more than 300 pages.
The main objective of the author was to determine and present findings of various experiments that delve into tendencies of people to cheat given that some crucial factors or variables are present, or absent, as needed. Categorically, the author divided the ...