Research Catalog

Title

Leadership : essential selections on power, authority, and influence / by Barbara Kellerman.

Author

Kellerman, Barbara.

Publication

New York : McGraw-Hill Professional ; London : McGraw-Hill [distributor], 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

Kellerman, Barbara.

Description

xxvii, 299 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Provides analysis of the works of history's greatest authorities on leadership, in a book that includes writings from a number of influential figures, ranging from Lincoln to Lenin, Hobbes to Havel, and Machiavelli to Marx.

Subject

• Leadership
• Leadership > History

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-299).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

PART 1: About leadership -- Tao Te Ching / Lao Tsu -- Analects / Confucius -- The Republic / Plato -- Lives / Plutarch -- The Prince / Niccolo Machiavelli -- Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes -- Second treatise of government / John Locke -- On heroes, hero-worship, and the heroic in history / Thomas Carlyle -- The study of sociology / Herbert Spencer -- "Great men and their environment" / William James -- War and peace / Leo Tolstoy -- On Liberty / John Stuart Mill -- The theory of social and economic organization / Max Weber -- Group psychology and the analysis of the ego, Civilization and its discontents, and Moses and monotheism / Sigmund Freud -- "The essentials of leadership" / Mary Parker Follett -- Leadership / James MacGregor Burns -- Obedience to authority / Stanley Milgram -- Eichmann in Jerusalem / Hannah Arendt -- PART 2: Literature as leadership -- A vindication of the rights of women / Mary Wollstonecraft -- Common Sense / Thomas Paine -- Declaration of sentiments / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- The Communist Manifest / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- "The talented tenth" / W.E.B. Du Bois -- The wretched of the earth / Frantz Fanon -- Silent spring / Rachel Carson -- The feminine mystique / Betty Friedan -- Rules for radicals / Saul Alinsky -- Animal liberation / Peter Singer -- "1,112 and counting" / Larry Kramer -- PART 3: Leaders in action -- "Speech to the troops at Tilbury" and "The golden speech" / Queen Elizabeth I -- "Ain't I a woman?" / Sojourner Truth -- "Gettysburg Address" and "Second inaugural address" / Abraham Lincoln -- What is to be done? / V.I. Lenin -- "Conditions for becoming a Satyagrahi," "Satyagraha-not 'passive resistance,'" and "the essential law of Satyagraha" / Mahatma Gandhi -- "Adamant for drift? and "The threat to Czechoslovakia" / Winston Churchill -- "Letter from Birmingham jail" / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- "I am prepared to die" / Nelson Mandela -- "The power of the powerless" / Vaclav Havel.

ISBN

• 9780071633840 (hbk.)
• 0071633847 (hbk.)

OCLC

503638688

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library