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Drawing on his groundbreaking work on intelligence and creativity, Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner, developer of the theory of Multiple Intelligences, offers fascinating revelations about the mind of the leader and his or her followers. He identifies six constant features of leadership as well as paradoxes that must be resolved for leadership to be effective using portraits of leaders from J. Robert Oppenheimer to Alfred P. Sloan, from Pope John XXIII to Mahatma Gandhi.

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• Preface to The Paperback Edition(p. ix)
• Preface(p. xiii)
• Part I A Framework for Leadership(p. 1)
• 1 Introduction: A Cognitive Approach to Leadership(p. 3)
• 2 Human Development and Leadership(p. 22)
• 3 The Leaders' Stories(p. 41)
• Part II Case Studies: From Domains to Nations(p. 67)
• 4 Margaret Mead: An Observer of Diverse Cultures Educates Her Own(p. 69)
• 5 The Teaching of Physics, the Lessons of Politics(p. 89)
• 6 Bringing "The Higher Learning" to America(p. 111)
• 7 The Business of America(p. 131)
• 8 The Embodiment of the Good Soldier(p. 147)
• 9 Rediscovering the Spirit of the Church(p. 165)
• 11 Martin Luther King, Jr(p. 203)
• Reprise(p. 222)
• 12 A Clear Sense of Identity(p. 225)
• 13 A Generation of World Leaders(p. 243)
• Part III Conclusion: Leadership That Looks Forward(p. 265)
• 14 Leadership Beyond National Boundaries(p. 267)
• 15 Lessons from the Past, Implications for the Future(p. 285)
• Appendix I The Eleven Leaders Viewed along the Principal Dimensions of Leadership(p. 307)
• Appendix II The Leaders of the Second World War(p. 327)
• Notes(p. 343)
• Bibliography(p. 367)
• Name Index(p. 381)
• Subject Index(p. 387)

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Publishers Weekly Review

In a novel analysis of leadership, writing with Project Zero staff member Laskin, Harvard education professor Gardner defines a leader as one who successfully imparts a central message or story to a receptive audience. In their framework, Eleanor Roosevelt exemplified the ``story'' that a woman of ordinary appearance could improve the lot of the disadvantaged and refute the misconception that only men can lead. Martin Luther King Jr. embodied the precept that African Americans must stand up nonviolently for their rights. The authors differentiate visionaries‘leaders who create new stories, such as Gandhi and Jean Monnet, architect of a unified Europe‘from such innovative leaders as Margaret Thatcher, who identify a theme latent in the population but neglected over the years and give it a new twist. Other leaders on whom they focus are George Marshall, Margaret Mead, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Pope John XXIII, former General Motors president Alfred P. Sloan Jr. and educator Robert Hutchins. This study will repay the close attention of aspiring leaders in many fields. Photos. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

CHOICE Review

Gardner explores the nature and underlying conditions that influenced the success of 11 leaders in diverse fields of politics, science, and social life. Distinguishing between "direct" and "indirect" leaders, Gardner (Harvard and Boston Univ.) argues that some leaders take direct charge of their arenas of action, while others exert influence through the articulation of ideas and concepts others take as part of their own work. Drawing on the field of cognitive psychology, Gardner argues that the leaders he analyzes were successful because they were able to embody persuasive stories--orientations toward work, duty, or private life--that encouraged others to follow. These stories operate on what Gardner calls the "five year old mind" that characterizes most followers' cognitive capacities. An interesting and useful book. Its only flaw is its incompleteness: although Gardner describes the stories that various leaders embody, he provides no indicators to demonstrate that the story was what mattered. Such work needs to be done if the work is to be as empirically persuasive as it is theoretically intriguing. Recommended at all levels. A. L. Crothers; Illinois State University

Booklist Review

What do Margaret Mead, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Robert Hutchins, Alfred P. Sloan Jr., George Marshall, Pope John XXIII, Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr., Margaret Thatcher, Jean Monnet, and Mahatma Gandhi all have in common? By Harvard education professor Gardner's own unusual definition, all are exemplary leaders. Gardner (Laskin helps with the writing) defines leaders as "persons who, by word and/or personal example, markedly influence the behavior, thoughts, and/or feelings of a significant number of their fellow human beings." He sees leaders as exceptional--persons who are able to create, relate, and embody what he calls their "story," and he shows how his examples have done just that. This is an imaginative book, filled with uncommon ideas. ing Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun (1987), has thought of one more noteworthy leader. He goes forward in time to find a more enlightened leader and concludes there is no denying that Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the United Federation of Planets' flagship USS Enterprise-D is one of the greatest leaders of all time, in this or any other galaxy. The question is, will Roberts' latest gimmick work best-selling magic again? Given the legions of Trekkies, make it so! --David Rouse

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Howard Gardner is Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Harvard University; Adjunct Professor of Neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine; and Codirector of Harvard Project Zero. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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