Leadership

Name: Leadership
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: James MacGregor Burns
ISBN: 9781494578367

Author: James MacGregor Burns

Narrator: Paul Costanzo

Unabridged: 24 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/20/2015

Categories: Nonfiction, Business & Economics, Management & Leadership

Synopsis

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James MacGregor Burns 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.

About James MacGregor Burns

James MacGregor Burns (1918-2014) was the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Government Emeritus at Williams College and the Distinguished Leadership Scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland. He also served as president of the American Political Science Association and of the International Society of Political Psychology. He was the author or coauthor of more than two dozen books, including Roosevelt: Soldier of Freedom, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; Leadership, which is considered the seminal work in the field of leadership studies; Government by the People; and Running Alone: Presidential Leadership from JFK to Bush II-Why It Has Failed and How We Can Fix It.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Stephen on July 24, 2011

READ SEP 2009 Seminal work that introduced the idea of transformational leadership. Best quote; "The function of leadership is to engage followers, not merely to activate them, to commingle needs and aspirations and goals in a common enterprise, and in the process to make better citizens of both lead......more

Goodreads review by John on July 12, 2013

Read it in 2011. A seminal work on leadership, especially on transforming leadership as opposed to transactional leadership. Although it is a pretty thick book, I didn't skip a word. Thoroughly enjoyed it.......more

Goodreads review by Zack on December 04, 2024

Did not read the whole thing, had to read for a paper. Gonna count it towards my reading goal regardless.......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on February 09, 2021

Long and boring...... but i made it through... i climbed the mountain of blah.. lol......more

Goodreads review by Tommy on August 04, 2022

So, you want to know about leadership? James MacGregor Burns says, "Pull up a chair, we're going to be here awhile!" About the author: James MacGregor Burns (1918-2014) was a historian and political scientist, a Pulitzer-Prize presidential biographer (FDR:Soldier of Freedom, 1970), and prolific author......more