Finance ✦ Penny’s Take
Leadership
James M. Burns · 2010
87/100
👍 Worth It
This is the book that basically started the whole field of leadership studies, and you can feel why -- Burns builds a genuinely original idea (transformational vs. transactional leadership) out of real history, not buzzwords. It's dense, academic reading, not a breezy weekend book, but if you want the root of where modern leadership thinking comes from, this is it.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety90
Substance / usefulness92
Craft & writing78
Originality95
Evidence & accuracy88
Hype vs delivers85
Age-fit70
Human-eye read82
Penny’s verdict87
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