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James MacGregor Burns (August 3, 1918 – July 15, 2014) [4] was an American historian and political scientist, presidential biographer, and authority on leadership studies. He was the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Government Emeritus at Williams College and Distinguished Leadership Scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership of ...
James Macgregor (MP) (1808–1858), British MP for Sandwich; Jimmie Macgregor (born 1930), folk singer and broadcaster; James MacGregor (moderator) (1832–1910), Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1891; James Drummond MacGregor (1759–1830), Scottish Gaelic poet, abolitionist and Presbyterian minister; James Gordon ...
James Macgregor, Esq. (sometimes spelled Mac Gregor or M'Gregor) was born in Liverpool, England on 1 August 1808, [1] the son of Alexander Macgregor, Esq. of Bloomhill in Manchester, England. [ 2 ] Business career
The concept of transformational leadership was initially introduced by James V. Downton, the first to coin the term "transformational leadership," a concept further developed by leadership expert and presidential biographer James MacGregor Burns. According to Burns, transformational leadership can be seen when "leaders and followers make each ...
Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom, 1940-1945 [1] [2] is a 1970 biography of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt by James MacGregor Burns, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. The book won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for History and the National Book Award for Nonfiction (History and Biography). [3] It is a sequel to Roosevelt: The Lion and the ...
Political scholar James MacGregor Burns first developed his typology of leadership in his 1978 book Leadership. [2] He built on the work of German sociologist Max Weber's rational-legal model of authority in the context of organizational theory, conceptualizing leadership as a power-imbalanced social contract between leaders and subordinates, each of whom has specific goals that may be shared ...
Rev James Macgregor Monument, Pictou, Nova Scotia. Rev. James Drummond MacGregor (Scottish Gaelic: an t-Urr. Seumas MacGriogar) (December 1759 – 3 March 1830) was an author of Christian poetry in both Scottish and Canadian Gaelic, an abolitionist and Presbyterian minister in Nova Scotia, Canada. [1] [2]
James L. McGregor is an American author, journalist and businessman who has lived in China for more than 25 years. He is one of the most recognized analysts and writers on business in China . McGregor is chairman of APCO Worldwide , Greater China and a member of the firm’s international advisory council.