Introduction: A cognitive approach to leadership
Human development and leadership
The leaders' stories
Margaret Mead : an observer of diverse cultures educates her own
J. Robert Oppenheimer : the teaching of physics, the lessons of politics
Robert Maynard Hutchins : bringing "the higher learning" to America
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. : the business of America
George C. Marshall : the embodiment of the good soldier
Pope John XXIII : rediscovering the spirit of thd church
Eleanor Roosevelt : ordinariness and extraordinariness
Martin Luther King, Jr. : leading in a rapidly changing environment
Margaret Thatcher : a clear sense of identity
a generation of world leaders
Jean Monnet and Mahatma Gandhi : leadership beyond national boundaries
Lessons from the past, implications for the future
Appendix I : The eleven leaders viewed along the principal dimensions of leadership
Appendix II : the leaders of the Second World War.