The Leader's Companion: Insights on Leadership Through the Ages
By J. Thomas Wren.
Description
This book serves as a guided introduction to the richly diverse perspectives on leadership throughout the ages and throughout the world.Each of the selections, introduced by the editor, presents enlightening thoughts on a different aspect of leadership. Writings by Plato, Aristotle, Lao-tzu and others demonstrate that the challenges of leadership 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 leadership. Modern masters of leadership such as James MacGregor Burns, John Kotter, and Warren ...
ISBN(s)
0028740912, 9780028740911