Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership by Gardner, Howard

Howard, Gardner

Self-Help

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

In any society, very few human beings become leaders, yet without effective leaders a society cannot remain viable. How can we understand leadership, form a psychological point of view? This book provides a psychological study of leadership, offering a better understanding of the problems that surround the development of leadership and insights into how best to nurture and sustain it effectively. The book uses, as examples, leaders ranging from Einstein to Thatcher.

Leading Minds : An Anatomy of Leadership

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

The author demonstrates that there exist many human "intelligences", common to all cultures - each with its own pattern of development and brain activity, and each different in kind from the others. These potentials include linguistic, musical and logical/mathematical capacities, as well as spatial and bodily intelligences, and the ability to arrive at an emotional and mental sense of self and other people. Rather than reducing an individual's potential to a single score on an IQ test, it is the fostering and education of all these intelligences that should be our concern.

Frames of Mind : Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Fontana Press Harpercollins

, 351 pages including an index, with black &amp; white images throughout

Intelligence: Multiple Perspectives

Mindy Kornhaber

Warren K. Wake

Wadsworth Publishing

The author demonstrates that there exist many human intelligences, common to all cultures - each with its own pattern of development and brain activity, and each different in kind from the others. These potentials include linguistic, musical and logical/mathematical capacities, as well as spatial and bodily intelligences, and the ability to arrive at an emotional and mental sense of self and other people. Rather than reducing an individual's potential to a single score on an IQ test, it is the fostering and education of all these intelligences that should be our concern.

Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Science & Math

Behavioral Sciences

Basic Books, Inc.

Discusses the ideas and works of the two leading structuralists on human behavior and mental functioning

The quest for mind: Piaget, Lévi-Strauss, and the structuralist movement

University of Chicago Press

Developmental Psychology: An Introduction

TBS The Book Service Ltd

FRAMES OF MIND

Heinemann

Howard Gardner changed the way we think about intelligence. In his classic work Frames of Mind , he undermined the common notion that intelligence is a single capacity that every human being possesses to a greater or lesser extent. Now building on the framework he developed for understanding intelligence, Gardner gives us a path breaking view of creativity, along with riveting portraits of seven figures who each reinvented an area of human endeavor. Using as a point of departure his concept of seven intelligences,” ranging from musical intelligence to the intelligence involved in understanding oneself, Gardner examines seven extraordinary individualsSigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, T.S. Eliot, Martha Graham, and Mahatma Gandhieach an outstanding exemplar of one kind of intelligence. Understanding the nature of their disparate creative breakthroughs not only sheds light on their achievements but also helps to elucidate the modern era”the times that formed these creators and which they in turn helped to define. While focusing on the moment of each creator's most significant breakthrough, Gardner discovers patterns crucial to our understanding of the creative process. Not surprisingly, Gardner believes that a single variety of creativity is a myth. But he supplies evidence that certain personality configurations and needs characterize creative individuals in our time, and that numerous commonalities color the ways in which ideas are conceived, articulated, and disseminated to the public. He notes, for example, that it almost invariably takes ten years to make the initial creative breakthrough and another ten years for subsequent breakthroughs. Creative people feature unusual combinations of intelligence and personality, and Gardner delineates the indispensable role of the circumstances in which an individual works and the crucial reactions of the surrounding group of informed peers. He finds that an essential element of the creative process is the support of caring individuals who believe in the revolutionary ideas of the creators. And he documents the fact that extraordinary creativity almost always carries with it extraordinary costs in human terms.

Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinksy, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi

Creativity

Basic Books

Responsibility at Work: How Leading Professionals Act (or Don't Act) Responsibly

Wiley Professional Development (P&T)

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