Examines leadership as it is practiced in American today, describes the problems leaders face, and explains how leaders set national standards

On Leadership

Business & Money

Gardner, John W.

Management & Leadership

Free Press

In this insightful classic, John Gardner unpacks what it means to be a leader, stressing the importance of dispersed leadership and a primary understanding of leadership as applied across all sectors of society. “A masterpiece.”—Walter F. Ulmer, Jr., President and CEO, Center for Creative Leadership Leaders today are familiar with the demand that they come forward with a new vision. But it is not a matter of fabricating a new vision out of whole cloth. A vision relevant for us today will build on values deeply embedded in human history and in our own tradition. It is not as though we come to the task unready. Men and women from the beginning of history have groped and struggled for various pieces of the answer. The materials out of which we build the vision will be the moral strivings of the species, today and in the distant past. Most of the ingredients of a vision for this country have been with us for a long time. As the poet wrote, “The light we sought is shining still.” That we have failed and fumbled in some of our attempts to achieve our ideals is obvious. But the great ideas still beckon—freedom, equality, justice, the release of human possibilities. The vision is to live up to the best in our past and to reach the goals we have yet to achieve—with respect to our domestic problems and our responsibilities worldwide. —From the Preface to On Leadership

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

"Gardner's is not a 'how-to-do-it' book for the conduct of modern society. It is something rarer these days and more basic: a 'why-to-do-it' book. Its impact on many readers is bound to be challenging and stimulating and even inspirational."â€”Clark Kerr, Science

Self Renewal: the Individual and the Innovative Society

Medical Books

Psychology

HARPER/COLLINS

"Gardner's is not a 'how-to-do-it' book for the conduct of modern society. It is something rarer these days and more basic: a 'why-to-do-it' book. Its impact on many readers is bound to be challenging and stimulating and even inspirational."—Clark Kerr, Science

Self-Renewal : The Individual and the Innovative Society

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

HarperCollins, Publishers

“Few private citizens have had as lasting an impact on the governmental system as he.” ―The Wall Street Journal John W. Gardner, founder of Common Cause, has served his country in many roles ranging from that of Marine Corps officer to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. He has been a professor, a foundation president, and in 1974 was awarded the presidential medal of freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award. “The task of the moment,” Mr. Gardner says,” is to recreate a motivated society.” How are we to combat widespread apathy? How are we to release the spirit and zest and enthusiasm that drives civilizations forward? Now, after a dozen years wholly devoted to action and conflict in public life, Mr. Gardner steps back and looks at the beliefs and values that must underlie human striving. He says of this book, “It’s about the attitudes and values at the core of your being.” He confronts hard questions and offers powerful, thought-provoking answers.

Morale

Philosophy

W.W.Norton&Company

The Recovery Of Confidence By: John W. Gardner 1970 First Edition! Standard Book Number: 393-05407-1 Library Of Congress Catalog Card Number 75-108327 RARE! PUBLISHER: W.W. Norton &amp; Company, Inc., New York Printed In The United States of America Hardcover With Dust Jacket

The recovery of confidence

Norton

Literature & Fiction

W. W. Norton & Company; Incorporated

In Excellence, Mr. Gardner discusses the strengths and failings of our educational system, our confusion over the idea of equality, and the nature of leadership in a free society.

Excellence

Can we be equal and excellent too? In Excellence, Mr. Gardner discusses the strengths and failings of our educational system, our confusion over the idea of equality, and the nature of leadership in a free society.

"Gardner's is not a 'how-to-do-it' book for the conduct of modern society. It is something rarer these days and more basic: a 'why-to-do-it' book. Its impact on many readers is bound to be challenging and stimulating and even inspirational."―Clark Kerr, Science

Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

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On Leadership

On Leadership

Self Renewal: the Individual and the Innovative Society

Self-Renewal : The Individual and the Innovative Society

Morale

The recovery of confidence

Morale

Excellence

Excellence

Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society