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Author Gardner, Howard, 1943-

Title Leading minds : an anatomy of leadership / Howard Gardner in collaboration with Emma Laskin.

Imprint New York, NY : BasicBooks, 1996, c1995.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  303.34 G173l 1996    ---  Available
Edition Pbk. ed.
Description xv, 400 p. : ports. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-380) and index.
Contents Introduction: A cognitive approach to leadership -- Human development and leadership -- The leaders' stories -- Margaret Mead : an observer of diverse cultures educates her own -- J. Robert Oppenheimer : the teaching of physics, the lessons of politics -- Robert Maynard Hutchins : bringing "the higher learning" to America -- Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. : the business of America -- George C. Marshall : the embodiment of the good soldier -- Pope John XXIII : rediscovering the spirit of thd church -- Eleanor Roosevelt : ordinariness and extraordinariness -- Martin Luther King, Jr. : leading in a rapidly changing environment -- Margaret Thatcher : a clear sense of identity -- a generation of world leaders -- Jean Monnet and Mahatma Gandhi : leadership beyond national boundaries -- Lessons from the past, implications for the future -- Appendix I : The eleven leaders viewed along the principal dimensions of leadership -- Appendix II : the leaders of the Second World War.
Subject Leadership.
Leadership -- Case studies.
Added Author Laskin, Emma.
Added Title Anatomy of leadership
ISBN 0465082807 (pbk.)
9780465082803 (pbk.)
Standard No. YDXCP 410704

 
    
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