Heroic leadership: authority as power -- Rational leadership: arguing to authority -- Cynicism: confronting managerial leadership -- Stoicism: managing adversity -- Religious leadership: two faces of authority -- Political leadership: contractual authority -- German romanticism: the power of the...

In this compelling book, top scholars from diverse fields describe the progress they have made in developing a general theory of leadership. Led by James MacGregor Burns, Pulitzer Prize winning author of the classic Leadership (1978), they tell the story of this intellectual venture and the...