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"In 1978, James MacGregor Burns published Leadership, his sminal examination of how leaders shape the course of history by transforming followers into creative new leaders. Now Burns shows how leaders shape the course of history by transforming followers into creative new leaders in Transforming Leadership. Burns illuminates the evolution of leadership structures throughout history. 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 throughtout the country." - Back cover.
