Barbara Kellerman is James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, USA, and Founding Executive Director of the school's Center for Public Leadership. She is the winner of the International Leadership Association Lifetime Achievement Award and has authored or edited many books and articles on leadership and followership. Todd L. Pittinsky is Professor at Stony Brook University (SUNY), USA, and Faculty Director of its College of Leadership and Service. He is also Associate Faculty Fellow of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, USA. Previously, he served on the faculties of the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Graduate School of Education.

• Prologue: Lust as Stimulus; 1. Lust for power; 2. Lust for money; 3. Lust for sex; 4. Lust for success; 5. Lust for legitimacy; 6. Lust for legacy; Epilogue: Lust and leadership.

'In this path-breaking book, one of the most perceptive and prolific scholars in leadership, Barbara Kellerman, teams up with one of the most talented and promising social scientists, Todd Pittinsky, to pierce an important veil. Instead of telling us what leaders should be like, we learn how they truly are. This is an eye-opening must read.' David Gergen, White House Adviser to four US Presidents and founding Director of the Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School