Leading Minds

by HowardGardner (Author)

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  1997

  $4.17

  In any society, very few human beings become leaders, yet without effective leaders a society cannot remain viable. How can we understand leadership, form a psychological point of view? This book provides a psychological study of leadership, offering a better understanding of the problems that surround the development of leadership and insights into how best to nurture and sustain it effectively. The book uses, as examples, leaders ranging from Einstein to Thatcher.

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  Paperback
  1996

  $4.20

  Drawing on his groundbreaking work on intelligence and creativity, Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner, developer of the theory of Multiple Intelligences, offers fascinating revelations about the mind of the leader and his or her followers. He identifies six constant features of leadership as well as paradoxes that must be resolved for leadership to be effective using portraits of leaders from J. Robert Oppenheimer to Alfred P. Sloan, from Pope John XXIII to Mahatma Gandhi. 0465004407 the Arts and Human Development : with a New Introduction by the Author 0465004458 Art, Mind, and Brain : a Cognitive Approach to Creativity 0465014542 Creating Minds : an Anatomy of Creativity as Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi 0465025102 Frames of Mind : the Theory of Multiple Intelligences 0465046355 the Mind's New Science : a History of the Cognitive Revolution 0465086292 to Open Minds 0465088961 the Unschooled Mind : How