What is the book about? The book of two prominent specialists, Kouzes and Posner, deals with the problem of leadership, which is the most crucial issue of contemporary management studies. The authors claim to outline the main contours of leadership in the organization. This claim is long-standing research conducted by these authors, which sought to find out the primary laws of the human leadership capacity and its role in the successful management of the organization. The authors present a unique approach that implies the interviewing of ordinary people rather than high-ranking managers and officials in the leading companies. The interviewing of ordinary people seeks to find information about their leadership experience. This outlines the main direction of the book, which is not to describe the behavior of extraordinary leaders but rather to analyze the process of making leadership functions in the organization and the tools for the formation of influential leaders. According to the author’s approach, the research into leadership must deal with two facets of the problem – the leader and his followers. The authors prove that it is impossible for a leader to be successful without the support of the followers and vice versa. To emphasize this point and fundamentally prove it, the authors use much space to describe the dynamics of the relations between a leader and his followers. The authors make all necessary to shatter many dominant myths about leadership, such as the perception of leadership as some kind of divine revelation which includes charisma and makes other people be tools in the hands of a leader. Authors justly claim that the role of the leader in the organization is far from implementing such revolutionary functions. The leadership in an organization is pragmatic, rationalized, built on knowledge and professionalism but not on power. That is why the concepts describing leadership qualities as exceptional talent are totally false because they overlook the possibility of developing excellent leadership qualities by means of training and communication. The authors make a great effort from the start to make it clear that leadership is about understanding, learning practices, and procedures that are inseparably tied with the realization of ordinary working functions and improving the performance of the management. The result of these findings is outlining the set of five essential practices for leadership, which in turn are divided into ten significant commitments. This classification is, by definition is the result of the authors’ profound effort and makes clear their deep perception of the problem. The structure of the book is designed to describe these leadership practices and commitments. The 2-6 chapters are devoted to the combination of five powerful techniques, and the rest of the book to an analysis of the ten significant commitments of a leader. In the same token, the book is finished by the inclusive appendices, which describe and prove the foundation of their LPI – Leadership Practice Inventory. This tool is designed to provide possible enhancement for a leader in the course of five practices outlined in the book. These practices and themes will be outlined later in my essay. It is important to note that besides the evident advantages of this study there