Leadership: Essential Selections on Power, Authority, and Influence
- 6h 34m
- Barbara Kellerman (ed)
- McGraw-Hill
- 2010
For leaders, by leaders, about what it means to lead. Get the great leadership literature—at your fingertips.
In Leadership, you'll find the most seminal and salient leadership lessons from among a list of great men and women, including:
- Sigmund Freud
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- Mary Parker Follett
- Vladimir Lenin
- Confucius
- Sojourner Truth
- Stanley Milgram
- Saul Alinsky
- Hannah Arendt
- Thomas Hobbes
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Leo Tolstoy
- Nelson Mandela
- Peter Singer
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Betty Friedan
- Larry Kramer
- and more…
Noted author, leadership expert, and Harvard Professor Barbara Kellerman illuminates these great insights and puts them into historical context, explaining how and why they are relevant to you in your capacity as leader, visionary, entrepreneur or, simply, student of leadership.
Sometimes practical, sometimes philosophical, always enlightening and enlivening, the selections in this volume are timeless and universal. They are the classics of the leadership literature—informing and expanding the minds of those who want to lead, and those who want, simply, to know leadership.
About the Editor
Barbara Kellerman, Ph.D., is the James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. She has served as both founding executive director and research director for the Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership. Kellerman has written articles appearing in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, and Harvard Business Review.
In this Book
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Leadership—Essential Selections on Power, Authority, and Influence
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Introduction
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Lao Tsu
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Confucius
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Plato
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Plutarch
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Niccolò Machiavelli
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Thomas Hobbes
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John Locke
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Thomas Carlyle, 1795–1881, Herbert Spencer, 1830–1903, William James, 1842–1910 and Leo Tolstoy, 1828–1910
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John Stuart Mill
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Max Weber
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Sigmund Freud
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Mary Parker Follett, 1868–1933 and James MacGregor Burns, 1918–
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Stanley Milgram, 1933–1984 and Hannah Arendt, 1906–1975
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Thomas Paine
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Karl Marx, 1818–1883 and Friedrich Engels, 1820–1895
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W. E. B. Du Bois
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Frantz Fanon
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Rachel Carson
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Betty Friedan
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Saul Alinsky
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Peter Singer
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Larry Kramer
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Queen Elizabeth I
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Sojourner Truth, 1797–1883 and Abraham Lincoln, 1809–1865
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V. I. Lenin
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Winston Churchill
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Nelson Mandela
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Vaclav Havel
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