Leading Minds

by Howard E Gardner

• ISBN13: 9780465082797
• ISBN10: 0465082793
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780465027774
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• Copyright: 2011-12-06
• Publisher: Hachette
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Howard Gardner is a Professor of Education and Co-director of Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Adjunct Professor of Neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine.

Table of Contents

Preface to The Paperback Edition	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
A Framework for Leadership	p. 1
Introduction: A Cognitive Approach to Leadership	p. 3
Human Development and Leadership	p. 22
The Leaders' Stories	p. 41
Case Studies: From Domains to Nations	p. 67
Margaret Mead: An Observer of Diverse Cultures Educates Her Own	p. 69
The Teaching of Physics, the Lessons of Politics	p. 89
Bringing "The Higher Learning" to America	p. 111
The Business of America	p. 131
The Embodiment of the Good Soldier	p. 147
Rediscovering the Spirit of the Church	p. 165
Martin Luther King, Jr	p. 203
Reprise	p. 222
A Clear Sense of Identity	p. 225
A Generation of World Leaders	p. 243
Conclusion: Leadership That Looks Forward	p. 265
Leadership Beyond National Boundaries	p. 267
Lessons from the Past, Implications for the Future	p. 285
The Eleven Leaders Viewed along the Principal Dimensions of Leadership	p. 307
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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