Table of Contents

A Framework For Leadership * Introduction: A Cognitive Approach to Leadership * Human Development and Leadership * The Leaders Stories Case Studies: From Domains To Nations * Margaret Mead: An Observer of Diverse Cultures Educates Her Own * J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Teaching of Physics, the Lessons of Politics * Robert Maynard Hutchins: Bringing The Higher Learning to America * Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.: The Business of America * George C. Marshall: The Embodiment of the Good Soldier * Pope John XXIII: Rediscovering the Spirit of the Church * Eleanor Roosevelt: Ordinariness and Extraordinariness * Martin Luther King Jr.: Leading in a Rapidly Changing Environment * Margaret Thatcher: A Clear Sense of Identity * A Generation of World Leaders Conclusion: Leadership That Looks Forward * Jean Monnet and Mahatma Gandhi: Leadership Beyond National Boundaries * Lessons from the Past, Implications for the Future

Reviews

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.)