![]() ![]() ![]() is methodical, logically arranged, and easy to follow.” –Philip Gold, The Washington Times “A wonderful walkabout–a stroll with a brilliant, humane, and beloved old professor whose courses you took long ago. “Harvesting vignettes from American and world history and reading them in light of new sociological and psychological research, latest book aims to put “transforming leadership” at the core of Western values.” –Christopher Caldwell, The New York Times ![]() Democracy is not the result of smooth social evolution it requires leaders, conflicts, ideology and activism.” –Kimberly Phillips-Fein, The Washington Post “ Transforming Leadership is the grittiest of these books on democracy, for it posits a vision of democracy based on the intimate organizations that make up movements for social change. The book culminates in a bold and innovative plan to address the greatest global leadership challenge of the twenty-first century: the seemingly intractable problem of global poverty.Įngagingly written, original, and provocative, Transforming Leadership is a powerful book that will fire controversy and conversation in classrooms and boardrooms throughout the country. Now, twenty-five years later, Burns expands the subject, offering a new vision” Transforming Leadership“focusing on the ways that leaders emerge from being ordinary “transactional” brokers and deal makers to become true agents of principled social change who empower their followers to achieve freedom and happiness.Īs a historian, Burns illuminates the evolution of leadership structures, from the chieftainships of tribal African societies, through Europe’s absolute monarchies, to the blossoming of the Enlightenment vision of liberty that came to full flower with the Declaration of Independence’s “Pursuit of Happiness.” Along the way he looks at key moments in leadership”including both great triumphs and grand failures’in men and women, from African leaders to Elizabeth I, James Madison, Napoleon, Mao, Gandhi, and many others. ![]() The book quickly became the cornerstone of the emerging field of leadership studies, which has spawned over nine hundred academic programs as well as leadership programs in business and government. In 1978, James MacGregor Burns published Leadership, his seminal examination of how leaders shape the course of history by transforming followers into creative new leaders. ![]()
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