James McGregor Burns, Transforming Leadership. Grove Press, 2004.
Prequel: Burns, Leadership (1978)
Referenced in: Transformational Leadership
LifeandLeadership.com Summary
This is a more recent book by the renowned leadership theorist James McGregor Burns that is an updated expression of the classic theory of transformative leadership. In this case, he sets forth several international leaders as examples of transformative work, and suggests ways to use this approach to address current issues such as world poverty.
From the Publisher
In Transforming Leadership, Burns illuminates the evolution of leadership structures, from the chieftains of tribal African societies, through Europe’s absolute monarchies, to the blossoming of the Enlightenment’s ideals of liberty and happiness during the American Revolution. Along the way he looks at key breakthroughs in leadership and the towering leaders who attempted to transform their worlds-Elizabeth I, Washington, Jefferson, Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Gorbachev, and others. Culminating in a bold and innovative plan to address the greatest global leadership challenge of the twenty-first century, the long-intractable problem of global poverty, Transforming Leadership will arouse discussion and controversy in classrooms and boardrooms throughout the country.
About the Author
James MacGregor Burns is a presidential biographer, authority on Leadership Studies, Woodrow Wilson Professor (emeritus) of Political Science at Williams College, and scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1971 for his Roosevelt: Soldier of Freedom 1940-1945.
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