Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 📱 Kindle
Leadership
James MacGregor Burns · 2012
90/100
👍 Worth It
A Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner that literally invented the transactional-versus-transformational leadership framework still taught today — this is the real deal, field-defining scholarship built on rigorous historical and psychological analysis. Dense, yes, but Penny says this is the leadership book the other leadership books are quoting.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety85
Substance / usefulness95
Craft & writing80
Originality95
Evidence & accuracy90
Hype vs delivers85
Age-fit70
Human-eye read75
Penny’s verdict90
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