Characteristics of Good Leadership – Review Of Theories, Practice including Transactional Transformational Qualities
From George Washington’s decision to buy time for the new nation by signing the less-than-ideal Jay Treaty with Great Britain in 1795 to George W. Bush’s order of a military intervention in Iraq in 2003, the matter of who is president of the United States is of the utmost importance. In this book, Fred Greenstein [...]
Continue Reading Inventing the Job of President: Leadership Style from George
As Americans choose and install a new president for a new century they could do no better than to read this work by one of our keenest observers of the modern presidency. Drawing on a quarter-century’s immersion in the presidential record and scores of interviews, Fred I. Greenstein provides a fascinating and instructive account of [...]
Continue Reading The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from Roosevelt to
For a quarter-century, Fred I. Greenstein has been one of our keenest observers of the modern presidency. Here, he provides a fascinating and instructive account of the qualities that have served well and poorly in the Oval Office, beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first hundred days. Newly expanded, this second edition now covers the momentous [...]
Continue Reading The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to
With present day demands to pursue style over substance, maintain latest fads, assume superficial and disposable details (e.g., on-line personas), and compromise a person’s values to “result in the amounts”, the process to understand, show, and remain in keeping with a person’s real self hasn’t been greater. Facing such demands, so many people are searching [...]
Continue Reading Authentic Leadership Theory and Practice, Volume 3: Origins,
