3 Quotes By James MacGregor Burns


Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
James MacGregor Burns on leadership

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 on leadership

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
James MacGregor Burns on politics