Table of Contents

Preface to the 2011 Edition xi

Part I A Framework for Leadership

1 Introduction: A Cognitive Approach to Leadership 3

2 Human Development and Leadership 21

3 The Leaders' Stories 39

Part II Case Studies: From Domains to Nations

4 Margaret Mead: An Observer of Diverse Cultures Educates Her Own 65

5 The Teaching of Physics, the Lessons of Politics J. Robert Oppenheimer 85

6 Bringing "The Higher Learning" to America Robert Maynard Hutchins 105

7 The Business of America Alfred P. Sloan 123

8 The Embodiment of the Good Soldier George C. Marshall 137

9 Rediscovering the Spirit of the Church Pope John XXIII 153

10 Ordinariness and Extraordinariness Eleanor Roosevelt 169

11 Leading in a Rapidly Changing Environment Martin Luther King 189

Reprise

12 Margaret Thatcher: A Clear Sense of Identity 211

13 A Generation of World Leaders 229

Part III Conclusion: Leadership that Looks Forward

14 Leadership beyond National Boundaries Jean Monnet Mahatma Gandhi 251

15 Lessons from the Past, Implications for the Future 269

Appendix I The Eleven Leaders Viewed along the Principal Dimensions of Leadership 291

Appendix II The Leaders of the Second World War 311

Notes 327

Bibliography 353

Name Index 369

Subject Index 375