THE "SEMINAL BOOK ON POWER" (NEW YORK TIMES) THAT "CONTINUES TO DOMINATE THE FIELD" (HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW)
"A landmark historian" (Jon Meacham), James MacGregor Burns, winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, devoted his legendary career to the study of leadership in all its aspects—from politics to business. Leadership, Burns's pioneering study, introduces the highly influential theory of "transformational leadership," stating that the best leaders are those who inspire others to come together toward the achievement of higher aims. Featuring fascinating case studies drawn from history, Leadership is the classic text for anyone seeking to understand executive decision-making, the dynamics of influence, and moral leadership.
Author(s): James M. Burns
Publisher: Open Road
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 544
City: New York
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Epigraph
Prologue: The Crisis of Leadership
Part I. Leadership: Power and Purpose
1. The Power of Leadership
The Two Essentials of Power
Leadership and Followership
What Leadership Is Not: Closing the Intellectual Gap
2. The Structure of Moral Leadership
The Power and Sources of Values
Conflict and Consciousness
The Elevating Power of Leadership.
Part II. Origins of Leadership
3. The Psychological Matrix of Leadership
The Cocoon of Personality
The Wellsprings of Want
The Transmutation of Need
The Hierarchies of Need and Value.
4. The Social Sources of Leadership
The Family as Imperium
Political Schooling
Self-esteem, Social Role, and Empathy.
5. The Crucibles of Political Leadership
The Spur of Ambition
The Need for Gratification
Openings and Closures: The Structure of Political Opportunity
The Creation of Followers.
Part III. Transforming Leadership
6. Intellectual Leadership: Ideas as Moral Power
Intellectuals at the Tension Points
Liberty and Power
Intellectuals and the Nature of Liberty
The Intellectual Test of Transforming Power
7. Reform Leadership
Great Britain: The Insistent Particularism
Russia: Reform from Above
Reform in America: Dilemmas of Transforming Leadership.
8. Revolutionary Leadership
France: The Maelstrom of Leadership.
Russia: The Vocation of Leadership.
China: The Cult of Leadership.
9. Heroes and Ideologues
Heroic Leadership
Ideological Leadership
Leadership as Transformation.
Part IV. Transactional Leadership
10. Opinion Leadership: The Missing Piece of the Puzzle
Arousal: The Mobilization of Political Opinion
Aggregation: The Alignment of Opinion
Voting: The Conversion of Opinion.
11. Group Leadership: Bargainers and Bureaucrats
The Leadership of Small Groups
Bureaucracy Versus Leadership
Leadership in Political Interest Groups.
12. Party Leadership
Parties: Conflict and Leadership
Party Leaders and Government Leaders
One-Party Leadership
Party Leadership: Power and Change.
13. Legislative Leadership: The Price of Consensus
The Legislator as Leader
Group Leadership and Legislative Structure
Central Legislative Leadership.
14. Executive Leadership
The Political Executive: Power and Purpose
The Executive Leader as Decision Maker
The American President as Executive Leader.
Part V. Implications: Theory and Practice
15. Decision and Change
The Leader as Policy Maker
Decision and Dissent
The Test: Real, Intended Change.
16. Toward a General Theory
Leadership and Collective Purpose
Leadership as Causation
Leadership and Change.
17. Political Leadership as Practical Influence
Teaching Leadership or Manipulation?
The Armament of Leadership
Leadership: Of Whom? To What?
Acknowledgments
Sources
Index
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
Y
Z
Copyright
