Transforming Leadership

Name: Transforming Leadership
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: James MacGregor Burns
ISBN: 9781455104369

Author: James MacGregor Burns

Narrator: Patrick Cullen

Unabridged: 10 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 06/25/2005

Categories: Nonfiction, Business & Economics

Synopsis

Transforming Leadership focuses on the ways that leaders such as Ghandi, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Gorbachev emerged from being ordinary transactional deal makers to becoming dynamic agents of major social change who empower their followers.

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 Rob on June 22, 2017

The major take-away: transformational leaders empower their followers by addressing their followers' needs, often by casting these needs as values. Transformational leaders thus motivate their followers. This is in contrast to transactional leaders, who focus on making deals.......more

Goodreads review by Adam on October 05, 2018

This book started great with a philosophical background of the concept of leadership, then just never seemed to build on that or go anywhere.......more

Goodreads review by Sergio on December 08, 2018

Written by the father of formal leadership studies, Transforming Leadership provides a foundation for a general theory of leadership which makes a distinction between transactional and transforming leadership. As a political historian, he draws on stories of leaders, movements, and revolutions from......more

Goodreads review by Mel on May 17, 2012

James MacGregor Burns, pulitzer prize winner has produced another winner! This is an easy read where Burns produces a thesis focused on how the truly great leaders are transformers. They mobilize and respond to followers and create changes that are real, deep, comprehensive, durable, grounded in val......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on July 24, 2011

READ JUN 2010 Excellent use of history and global political leaders to illustrate effective transformational leadership. The ideas presented are applicable to all organizations regardless of type, size or location. Best quote, "No one is more arresting than the person who breaks through his confining......more