Leadership : Essential Selections on Power, Authority, and Influence

"Bravo to Barbara Kellerman! Building upon a lifetime of scholarship and upon a popular course she has created at Harvard, Kellerman brings between the covers of a single volume the world's classic literature on leadership. Every thoughtful leader will find deep, rich rewards here." -- David Gergen, Director, Center for Public Leadership Harvard Kennedy School, Former Presidential Adviser

Bolster your leadership literacy?and improve your performance as a leader or manager.

Leadership, says author, leadership expert, and Harvard Professor Barbara Kellerman, "is all about what leaders should learn?but it is decidedly not, deliberately not, about what leadership education has lately come to look like."

Instead, Leadership is a concise yet expansive collection of great leadership literature that has stood the test of time. As Kellerman makes clear in her extensive, authoritative commentaries, every single selection has had, and continues to have, an impact on how and what we think about what it means to lead. And every single one has had an impact on leadership as an area of intellectual inquiry?as well as on the course of human history.

Preface

Part I : Contemplating Leadership
Chapter 1 : Lao Tzu
Chapter 2 : Confucius
Chapter 3 : Plato
Chapter 4 : Plutarch
Chapter 5 : Machiavelli
Chapter 6 : Hobbes
Chapter 7 : Locke
Chapter 8 : Carlyle, Spencer, James, and Tolstoy
Chapter 9 : Weber
Chapter 10 : Freud
Chapter 11 : Follett, Barnard, and Drucker
Chapter 12 : Burns
Chapter 13 : Milgram and Arendt

Part II : Exercising Leadership
Chapter 14 : Wollstonecraft
Chapter 15 : Paine
Chapter 16 : Marx and Engels
Chapter 17 : Stanton
Chapter 18 : Stowe
Chapter 19 : Lenin
Chapter 20 : DuBois
Chapter 21 : Hitler
Chapter 22 : Alinsky
Chapter 23 : Fanon or Friere
Chapter 24 : Carson
Chapter 25 : Friedan
Chapter 26 : Kramer
Chapter 27 : Singer

Part III : Leaders
Chapter 28 : Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)
Chapter 29 : Hamilton and Madison
Chapter 30 : Lincoln
Chapter 31 : Mao
Chapter 32 : Gandhi
Chapter 33 : F. D. Roosevelt
Chapter 34 : Churchill
Chapter 35 : King
Chapter 36 : J. F. Kennedy
Chapter 37 : Mandela
Chapter 38 : Havel

Index