Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
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James MacGregor Burns
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About James MacGregor Burns
James MacGregor Burns was an American historian and political scientist, presidential biographer, and authority on leadership studies. He was the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Government Emeritus at Williams College and Distinguished Leadership Scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park. In 1971 Burns received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in History and Biography for his work on America's …
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by James MacGregor BurnsWoodrow 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 secr…
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.