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In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.
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Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
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Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.
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Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.
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To elevate the goals of humankind, to achieve high moral purpose, to realize major intended change, leaders must thrust themselves into the most intractable processes and structures of history and ultimately master them.
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Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.
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Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.
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The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.
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James MacGregor Burns
Born:
August 3, 1918
Died:
July 15, 2014
(aged 95)
Bio:
James MacGregor Burns was an American historian and political scientist, presidential biographer, and authority on leadership studies.
Known for:
Transforming Leadership (2003)
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom, 1940-1945 (1970)
Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox (1956)
The three Roosevelts (2001)
The vineyard of liberty (1982)
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