Leading Minds An Anatomy Of Leadership

by Gardner, Howard; Laskin, Emma

• ISBN13: 9780465027736
• ISBN10: 0465027733
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780465027774
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-06
• Publisher: Basic Books
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Summary

In Leading Minds, Gardner and his research associate at Harvard Project Zero, Emma Laskin, apply a cognitive lens to leadership, drawing on Gardner's groundbreaking work on intelligence and creativity to offer fascinating revelations about the minds of leaders and those who follow them. This reissue includes a new introduction by the author.

Author Biography

Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship in 1981, the Prince of Asturias Prize in Social Science in 2011, and twenty-nine honorary degrees, he is the author of more than twenty books. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Preface to the 2011 Edition	p. xi
A Framework for Leadership
Introduction: A Cognitive Approach to Leadership	p. 3
Human Development and Leadership	p. 21
The Leaders' Stories	p. 39
Case Studies: From Domains to Nations
Margaret Mead: An Observer of Diverse Cultures Educates Her Own	p. 65
The Teaching of Physics, the Lessons of Politics	p. 85
Bringing "The Higher Learning" to America	p. 105
The Business of America	p. 123
The Embodiment of the Good Soldier	p. 137
Rediscovering the Spirit of the Church	p. 153
Ordinariness and Extraordinariness	p. 169
Leading in a Rapidly Changing Environment	p. 189
Reprise
Margaret Thatcher: A Clear Sense of Identity	p. 211
A Generation of World Leaders	p. 229
Conclusion: Leadership that Looks Forward
Leadership beyond National Boundaries	p. 251
Lessons from the Past, Implications for the Future	p. 269
The Eleven Leaders Viewed along the Principal Dimensions of Leadership	p. 291
The Leaders of the Second World War	p. 311
Notes	p. 327
Bibliography	p. 353
Name Index	p. 369
Subject Index	p. 375
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