James MacGregor Burns

James MacGregor Burns was born August 3, 1918.  From 1943-1946, Burns served as combat historian in the Pacific Theater.  He was awarded the Bronze Star and four Battle Stars.  Burns received a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for his biographies about President Roosevelt in 1956 as well as 1970.  In 1978, he wrote Leadership, which is about a new kind of leadership.  Before this book people wrote about transactional leadership, but Burns took this idea of something more happening between the leader and followers to create something great, greater than them.  This is what we know as transformational leadership.  In 1991, Burns served as co-chair of the Salzburg Leadership Seminar in Salzburg, Austria.  In 2001, his most recent book was published, The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America.*

 In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, 

nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

~James MacGregor Burns

*Information from http://www.s9.com/Biography/Burns-James-MacGregor