Reflections on Leadership

Richard A. Couto is a founding faculty member of Antioch University's Ph.D. Program in Leadership and Change. Prior to this position he was a founding faculty member, professor, and Modlin Chair at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. His many publications, distinguished by several awards, cover community leadership and social change efforts.

• Part 1 ForewordChapter 2 IntroductionPart 3 I: James MacGregor Burns and LeadershipChapter 4 James MacGregor Burns: Leo as LeaderChapter 5 An Intellectual History of Leadership StudiesChapter 6 The Scholarly/Practical Challenge in LeadershipPart 7 II: Understanding LeadershipChapter 8 Relating Leadership to Active FollowershipChapter 9 Jumping Frogs, and the Multi-Level Analysis of LeadershipChapter 10 Leadership and Common PurposeChapter 11 Leadership and the Vox PopuliChapter 12 Leadership: Gender Excluded Yet EmbracedChapter 13 A New Paradigm for a New LeadershipPart 14 III: Finding Leadership after LeadershipChapter 15 Can Organizations Meet the Test of Transforming Leadership?Chapter 16 The Leadership of Ordinary PeopleChapter 17 Leadership and a Place Called HopeChapter 18 Leadership from the Bottom UpChapter 19 Effective Narratives of Adaptive WorkChapter 20 Conclusion as ProloguePart 21 Contributors

Richard Couto has assembled a diverse group of noted leadership scholars, all influenced in some way by James MacGregor Burns's Leadership, and by Burns himself. Reflections on Leadership is an outstanding addition to the leadership literature and a wonderful and thoughtful tribute to Jim Burns.