By James Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner.The authors have taken this opportunity to underscore that not only is leadership everyone’s business, but that it is a relationship-one of personal self-development and the development of those being led.
This leadership classic continues to be a bestseller after three editions and twenty years in print. It is the gold standard for research-based leadership, and the premier resource on becoming a leader. 

People across England are being urged to take part in a special poll to demonstrate pride in their local community. Scores of local authorities are taking part in the vote, the first national council-led online poll of its kind, which is inviting people to visit council websites to select one of ten locally-nominated favourite places. 

Britain’s largest trade union, Unite, says much of the 42 billion pounds spent by the Government and local authorities on manufacturing contracts each year is going to overseas companies. The union says those contracts account for about a third of the total procurement spend and if the money was spent here it could secure more than half a million British jobs.