Leadership by James M. Burns
This Book Is A Classic
One of Americas leading historians on the role of leadership in American
history.
Personal Review: Leadership by James M. Burns
When I was a doctoral student, I wrote my dissertation about transforming
leadership. As a full-time doctoral faculty member at one of America's
leading online universities, I now mentor students in leadership and
organizational change, among other specializations.
Leadership, by James MacGregor Burns the Pulitzer Prize winning author,
is the most important book I have read in the field of leadership. In it, Burns
coined the term, Transforming Leadership, and distinguished it from its
more mundane counterpart, Transactional Leadership.
In so doing, Burns catalyzed much of the theorizing and research into
transforming leadership (also called transformational leadership, visionary
leadership, and charismatic leadership, among others) from the latter part
of the 20th century through today.

In this foundational book, Burns argued that there was a "crisis of
leadership" because people did not understand the essence of leadership.
Whereas traditional, transactional leaders concern themselves with
exchanging money for services, the modern, transforming leader "seeks to
satisfy higher needs, and engages the full person of the follower" in a
"collective purpose," that is, a common vision or shared goal. The end
result is leadership "that can produce social change that will satisfy
followers authentic needs" (p. 4).
A classic, the message of this book is as meaningful and urgent today as it
was when Burns wrote it. We need a new form of leadership to help us
deal with the problems of an ever shrinking, interconnected world. Those
who would be part of a collective effort to make the world a better place,
would do well to read this book.
Robert E. Levasseur, Ph.D., author of "Leadership and Change in the 21st
Century"
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