Introduction: a cognitive approach to leadership -- Human development and leadership -- 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 learnng to america -- Alfrd P. Sloan, Jr.: the business of america -- George C. Marshall: the embodiment of the good soldier -- Pope john XXIII: rediscovering the spirit of the church -- Eleanor roosevelt: ordinariness and extraordinariness -- Martin luther king, jr.: leading in arapidly changing environment -- Margaret thatcher: a clear sense of identity -- Generation of world leaders -- Jean monnet and mahatma gandhi: leadership beyond national boundaries -- Lessons from the past, implications for the future

1. Leadership
2. Leadership -- Case studies