The Leader's Companion: Insights on Leadership Through the Ages - Hardcover

Wren, Thomas J.

 
9780028740058: The Leader's Companion: Insights on Leadership Through the Ages
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 002874005X ISBN 13: 9780028740058
Publisher: The Free Press, 2000

Synopsis

This book serves as a guided introduction to the rich a diverse perspectives on leader throughout the ages and throughout the world. Each of the selections, introduced by the editor, presents enlightening thoughts on a different aspect of leader. Writings by Plato, Aristotle, Lao-tzu and others demonstrate that the challenges of leader are as old as civilization. Machiavelli, Tolstoy, Ghandi, and W.E.B. Du Bois provide a wide range of insights into the eternal practice and problems of leader. Modern masters of leader such as James MacGregor Burns, John Kotter, and Warren Bennis join such leading practitioners as Max De Pree and Roger B. Smith in discussing contemporary issues in leader theory and practice.

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About the Author

J. Thomas Wren teaches at the University of Richmond's Jepson School of Leadership Studies. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.

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Publisher
The Free Press
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
002874005X
ISBN 13 
9780028740058
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
352

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