A Blueprint for Strategic Leadership – from Strategy + Business issue 49, Winter 2007

2007 By Steven Wheeler, Walter McFarland, and Art Kleiner "The challenge of leadership is not what it used to be." For the past few decades at least since the genre defining book Leadership by historian James Macgregor Burns was published in 1978, writers on business and society have understood that the quality of a leader's character makes all the difference. Burns, for example, wrote that civilization depended on its "transforming" leaders those who didn't just solve the problems handed to them, but who helped to raise society as a whole to higher levels of motivation and morality. Other . . .