Leadership /

A systematic study, ranging from the salons of eighteenth-century Paris to the revolutionary cadres of the present century, views leadership as dialectic, synthetic, collective, and consciousness-raising and scrutinizes its causes and effects.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burns, James MacGregor
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper & Row, ©1978.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Cass Canfield book
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: The crisis of leadership
  • PART I: LEADERSHIP: POWER AND PURPOSE: The power of leadership
  • The structure of moral leadership
  • PART II: ORIGINS OF LEADERSHIP: The psychological matrix of leadership
  • The social sources of leadership
  • The crucibles of political leadership
  • PART III: TRANSFORMING LEADERSHIP: Intellectual leadership: ideas as moral power
  • Reform leadership
  • Revolutionary leadership
  • Heroes and ideologues
  • PART IV: TRANSACTIONAL LEADERSHIP: Opinion leadership: the missing piece of the puzzle
  • Group leadership: bargainers and bureaucrats
  • Party leadership
  • Legislative leaderhip: the price of consensus
  • Executive leadership
  • PART V: IMPLICATIONS: THEORY AND PRACTICE: Decision and change
  • Toward a general theory
  • Political leadership as practical influence.