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On Leadership
by: John W. Gardner

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 658
EAN: 9780029113127
ISBN: 0029113121
Label: Free Press
Manufacturer: Free Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 220
Publication Date: March 12, 1993
Publisher: Free Press
Sales Rank: 11581
Studio: Free Press

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Leaders today are familiar with the demand that they come forward with a new vision. But it is not a matter of fabricating a new vision out of whole cloth. A vision relevant for us today will build on values deeply embedded in human history and in our own tradition. It is not as though we come to the task unready. Men and women from the beginning of history have groped and struggled for various pieces of the answer. The materials out of which we build the vision will be the moral strivings of the species, today and in the distant past.

Most of the ingredients of a vision for this country have been with us for a long time. As the poet wrote, 'The light we sought is shining still.' That we have failed and fumbled in some of our attempts to achieve our ideals is obvious. But the great ideas still beckon—freedom, equality, justice, the release of human possibilities. The vision is to live up to the best in our past and to reach the goals we have yet to achieve—with respect to our domestic problems and our responsibilities worldwide.

—From the Preface to On Leadership

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- Classic leadership text
Gardner's first sentence of his introduction, "Why do we not have better leadership?' is first answered by his initial definition of leadership attached to a disclaimer: "attention to leadership alone is sterile--and inappropriate. The larger topic of which leadership is a subtopic is the accomplishment of group purpose" [italics original]. This purpose, he says, is furthered by people other than individuals traditionally identified by leaders, such as "innovators, entrepreneurs and thinkers." He did not intend "to deal with either leadership or its related subjects comprehensively" but wanted instead to "illuminate aspects of the subject that may be of use in facing our present dilemmas--as a society and as a species" (p. xvi).

His book accomplished his purpose by highlighting, in vignettes, what by the 1990s had become the standard topics of leadership--traits, contexts, leader-follower dynamics, ... Read More

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- Gardner is a classic
A classic book. I read it for the purposes of educational leadership. I have read Fullan and the like, but this classic still holds its own with a succinct presentation of the necessities around corporate leadership. It is difficult for a book written this way to become outdated.

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- "it is not the performance of the individual that counts, but how one relate to others"
John Gardner opens with the question that I have often pondered myself, "Why do we not have better leadership?" For me, the following question is 'how did these people obtain their position?' Of course the latter question is outside the scope of Gardner's text.

Gardner does explain the attributes of a leader, basic components of leadership and its placement & utilization in large-scale organizations. The author enlivens this academic material by breathing politically historical examples to illustrate its application. The discussion comes full circle when Gardner segues into leadership development, motivating, and the release of human potential.

Personally, I relished absorbing and will emphasize the value of Chapter 13, 'Sharing Leadership Tasks'. Up until this point, most of the material colorfully delivered has been the foundation of leadership in its academic sense and you can find ... Read More

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- Dr. Anderson's comments
Good introduction to the concept of leadership. Much more focused on political leadership than orgininally anticipated.

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