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James Macgregor Burns Inspirational Quotes (10)
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The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.
James MacGregor Burns
To elevate the goals of humankind, to achieve high moral purpose, to realize major intended change, leaders must thrust themselves into the most intractable processes and structures of history and ultimately master them.
James MacGregor Burns
Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality.
James MacGregor Burns
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.
James MacGregor Burns
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.
James MacGregor Burns
Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.
James MacGregor Burns
Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed separate institutions that cannot be unified by mechanical linkages frail bridges(or) tinkering. If we are to turn the founders upside down we must directly confront the Constitutional structure they erected.
James MacGregor Burns
Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.
James MacGregor Burns
Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.
James MacGregor Burns
Those who remember only that the Roosevelts served hot dogs to the royals will be fascinated by this well-researched account of an historic and ennobling relationship - a great story!
James MacGregor Burns