Leadership Challenge

A Leader for All Time

Jack Covert, founder of 800-CEO-READ, and company president Todd Sattersten, have written a new book, The 100 Best Business Books of All Time: Whay They Say, Why They Matter, and How They Can Help You. Jack and Todd used three criteria in selecting books for their list. The first was quality of the idea put forth. The second was the applicability of the idea for someone working in business today. The third criterion for inclusion on the list was accessibility. We're very pleased to announce that The Leadership Challenge was one of these 100 titles--and one of 10 on the topic of leadership--chosen to be included in The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. Check it out!

-Marisa Kelley, Assistant Editor

Failure: The Secret to Success

Barry and I have been advocating failure as a necessary part of a leader's journey ever since we published the first edition of The Leadership Challenge. That's because over and over again people in our studies tell us how important mistakes are to their success. This doesn't mean for a moment that failure is the objective of the endeavor. It's just that failure is a natural "byproduct of pushing the envelope," of attempting something extraordinary. So, I was excited to come across a cool 8-minute video from Honda that's posted on YouTube.  It's entitled "Failure: The Secret to Success," and in it you'll hear Takeo Fukui, President and CEO of Honda Motor Co,. Ltd., say that "All the demands from Soichiro Honda (Honda founder) were to take risks and fail.  The idea is that you can fail 100 times as long as you succeed once. 'Trial and Error' sums up Soichiro Honda's ideas. We can only make fantastic advances in technology through many failures." When you have 8 minutes, take a look and listen to what one of the leading companies in the world has to say about the subject.

Posted by Jim Kouzes