James MacGregor Burns
Biography
Quotes
- Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
- Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.
- In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.
