Since the book helped to frame my own ideas on leadership, it was a pleasure to sit down recently with both Kouzes and Posner to talk about a topic I consider the most relevant to this column: how leaders can communicate a vision that gets people excited about going to work each day.

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The news comes days after news broke that Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg would be turning her popular TED talk on women, work and leadership into a book entitled Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, set to be published by Knopf next spring.

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