Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership - Softcover

Gardner, Howard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0465082807 ISBN 13: 9780465082803

Publisher: Basic Books, 1996

Synopsis

Drawing on his groundbreaking work on intelligence and creativity, Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner, developer of the theory of Multiple Intelligences, offers fascinating revelations about the mind of the leader and his or her followers. He identifies six constant features of leadership as well as paradoxes that must be resolved for leadership to be effective using portraits of leaders from J. Robert Oppenheimer to Alfred P. Sloan, from Pope John XXIII to Mahatma Gandhi. 0465004407 the Arts and Human Development : with a New Introduction by the Author 0465004458 Art, Mind, and Brain : a Cognitive Approach to Creativity 0465014542 Creating Minds : an Anatomy of Creativity as Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi 0465025102 Frames of Mind : the Theory of Multiple Intelligences 0465046355 the Mind's New Science : a History of the Cognitive Revolution 0465086292 to Open Minds 0465088961 the Unschooled Mind : How

About this title

About the Author:

Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor in Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Among numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. In 1990, he was the first American to receive the University of Louisville's Grawemeyer Award in education. In 2000, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Howard Gardner is professor of education and co-director of Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and adjunct professor of neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine. He is the author of thirteen books, including Frames of Mind.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0465082807
• ISBN 13: 9780465082803
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416