Throughout the novel The Student Leadership Challenge: Five Practices for Exemplary Leaders, authors James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner share with young student leaders the skills that they found for effective leadership. The authors wrote The Student Leadership Challenge in hopes of building the capacity and raising the morale of leaders by introducing the five principles: Lead the Way, Inspire a Shared Vision, Challenge the Process, Empower Others to taking action and encouraging the heart (Kouzes and Posner 3). Modeling the way is described as a leader practicing what he preaches (Kouzes and Posner 29). A leader must set an example of what he expects of those who follow him. When a leader inspires a shared vision, he or she “envisions the future by imagining exciting and ennobling possibilities” and inspires others to join him or her by appealing to shared aspirations (22). Leaders know that to be successful, they must experiment and take risks to challenge the process, build trust to enable others to act, and “create a sense of community” to encourage the heart (17, 22). ). In addition to reading The Student Leadership Challenge, student leaders can also find role models in various leaders throughout history, such as Queen Elizabeth I, who exemplified the five practices of exemplary leadership because she was a source of inspiration. inspiration, took great risks and encouraged his nation. Queen Elizabeth set a great example for the English people in the 1500s and for those today, more than 400 years later.BiographyElizabeth Tudor was born on September 7, 1533, at Greenwich Palace, to the disappointed King Henry VIII and his second wife Anne Boleyn (Eakins 1). Both of Elizabeth's parents were greatly...... middle of paper...... and learn from her example: It is just a pure myth that only a lucky few can understand the intricacies of leadership. Leadership is not a gene, nor a secret code that cannot be deciphered by ordinary people. The truth is that leadership is an observable set of skills and abilities useful on any campus, community, or work environment. And any skill can be strengthened, honed, and improved, given motivation and desire, as well as practice and feedback, role models and coaching. (Kouzes and Posner 145) It is easy for leaders to want to give up when their plans are not going as expected. In the case of Queen Elizabeth, if she had given up, she would not be considered one of the greatest monarchs in history. I think the most important lesson any leader can learn, not only from Elizabeth I, but from all leaders in history and in our community, is to not give up..