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James MacGregor Burns (August 3, 1918 – July 15, 2014) [4] was an American historian and political scientist, presidential biographer, and authority on leadership studies. He was the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Government Emeritus at Williams College and Distinguished Leadership Scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership of ...
Paige’s 1977 The Scientific Study of Political Leadership has been considered, [21] jointly with James MacGregor Burns’ 1978 Leadership, a landmark for the foundation and institutionalization of political leadership as discipline, following Harold Lasswell's challenge to study this field as a subject for multidisciplinary research grounded ...
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Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference. ... Representatives (1978–1994 ... James MacGregor Burns, 95 ...
In 1978, Akron schoolteacher Leslie Ann Barker went to the Red's discotheque with a friend to participate in a new matchmaking event. That morning, she was found dead in her burning car.
Political scholar James MacGregor Burns first developed his typology of leadership in his 1978 book Leadership. [2] He built on the work of German sociologist Max Weber's rational-legal model of authority in the context of organizational theory, conceptualizing leadership as a power-imbalanced social contract between leaders and subordinates, each of whom has specific goals that may be shared ...
The concept of transformational leadership was initially introduced by James V. Downton, the first to coin the term "transformational leadership," a concept further developed by leadership expert and presidential biographer James MacGregor Burns. According to Burns, transformational leadership can be seen when "leaders and followers make each ...
Burns died from cancer in 2017. In recent years Tomimbang Burns gave back to the community by establishing and overseeing endowments and scholarships for underserved and disadvantaged groups.