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Burns 18671940, american priest and president of the university of notre dame. Moreover, he says that leadership and education are ultimately similar. He purports it is essential for a leader to be led by his followers to be enabled to discern the needs and wants and aspirations and motives of his followers. Remembering james macgregor burns and his leadership wisdom. In 1978, pulitzer prize and national book awardwinning his. For burns, the transforming leaders focused on ends, while the transactional leaders negotiated and bargained over the means. In it burns introduced the influential theory of transformational leadership, which states that the best leaders are those who inspire others to come together toward. The first theme pinpoints the essential elements of leadership which he defines as power and purpose.
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