Six models of leadership….

09/03/01

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• Six different models of leadership are offered as examples:

  • James MacGregor Burns;
  • Robert K. Greenleaf (see Spears);
  • Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus;
  • John P. Kotter;
  • James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner; and
  • Joseph C. Rost.

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In the 1980s and 1990s, management researchers, scholars, and consulting “gurus” published a plethora of books on leadership. A number of claimed both Burns and Greenleaf as intellectual antecedents. The models that follow are meant to be illustrative; more will emerge as class participants report on the books they are currently reading, and digest and discuss the examples offered by Rowitz.