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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

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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