Leading Minds An Anatomy Of Leadership
by Gardner, Howard E; Laskin, EmmaEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 2011-12-06
Publisher(s): 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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