First published in the United States of America in 2014 By The Leadership Crucible LLC Saint Louis, Missouri For questions, concerns or suggestions, Please contact the author at [email protected] First Edition 2 Table of Contents LEARN TO LEAD FROM HISTORY’S GREATEST LEADERSHIP THINKERS ...................................................6 Lao-Tsu (6th century BC) ....................................................................................................................7 Sun-Tsu (544 – 496) ............................................................................................................................8 Plato (427 – 347) ................................................................................................................................9 Aristotle (384 – 322) ......................................................................................................................... 10 Cicero (106 – 43) .............................................................................................................................. 11 Jesus (0 – 33) ................................................................................................................................... 12 Plutarch (46 – 120) ........................................................................................................................... 13 Machiavelli (1469 – 1527) ................................................................................................................. 14 Shakespeare (1564 -1616) ................................................................................................................ 15 Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) ........................................................................................................... 16 Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903) .......................................................................................................... 17 Francis Galton (1822 – 1911) ............................................................................................................ 18 Henri Fayol (1841 – 1925) ................................................................................................................. 19 Fredrick Taylor (1856 – 1915) ........................................................................................................... 20 Max Weber (1864 – 1920) ................................................................................................................ 21 Mary Parker Follet (1868 – 1933) ...................................................................................................... 22 Kurt Lewin (1890 – 1947) .................................................................................................................. 23 Rensis Likert (1903 – 1981) .............................................................................................................. 24 B. F. Skinner (1904 – 1990) .............................................................................................................. 25 Robert Greenleaf (1904 – 1990) ....................................................................................................... 26 Ralph Stogdill (1904 – 1978) ............................................................................................................ 27 Douglas McGregor (1906 – 1964) ..................................................................................................... 28 Abraham Maslow (1908 – 1970) ...................................................................................................... 29 Peter Drucker (1909 – 2005) ............................................................................................................ 30 Eric Berne (1910 – 1970) .................................................................................................................. 31 John Wooden (1910 – 2010) ............................................................................................................ 32 John Gardner (1912 – 2002) ............................................................................................................. 33 3 David McClelland (1917 – 1998) ....................................................................................................... 34 Robert Tannenbaum (1915 – 2003) and Warren Schmidt ................................................................... 35 Robert Blake (1918 – 2004) and Jane Moulton (1930 – 1987) ............................................................ 36 James MacGregor Burns (1918 - ) ..................................................................................................... 37 Fred Fielder (1922 - ) ........................................................................................................................ 38 Abraham Zaleznik (1924 – 2011) ....................................................................................................... 39 Bernard Bass (1925 – 2007) .............................................................................................................. 40 Warren Bennis (1925 – ) ................................................................................................................... 41 John Boyd (1927 – 1997) .................................................................................................................. 42 Joseph McGrath (1927 – 2007) ......................................................................................................... 43 Edgar Schein (1928 – ) ...................................................................................................................... 44 Paul Hersey (1931 – 2012) ................................................................................................................ 45 Robert House (1932 – 2011) ............................................................................................................. 46 Stephen R. Covey (1932 – 2012)........................................................................................................ 47 Victor Vroom (1932 - ) and James Yetton .......................................................................................... 48 Jack Zenger (1932 - ) and Joseph Folkman ......................................................................................... 49 Richard Mann (1933 - ) ..................................................................................................................... 50 John Adair (1934 - ) .......................................................................................................................... 51 Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal ......................................................................................................... 52 James Hackman (d. 2013) and Richard Walton (d. 1995).................................................................... 53 Kenneth Blanchard (1939 - ) ............................................................................................................. 54 Henry Mintzberg (1939 - )................................................................................................................. 55 Gary Yukl (1940 - ) ............................................................................................................................ 56 William George (1943 - ) ................................................................................................................... 57 William Ouchi (1943 - ) ..................................................................................................................... 58 Bobby Calder (1944 - ) ...................................................................................................................... 59 Robert Cialdini (1945 - ) .................................................................................................................... 60 Daniel Goleman (1946 - ) .................................................................................................................. 61 John Kotter (1947 - ) ......................................................................................................................... 62 John Maxwell (1947 - ) ..................................................................................................................... 63 Peter Senge (1947 - ) ........................................................................................................................ 64 Joyce Hogan (1948 - 2012) and Robert Hogan ................................................................................... 65 Marshall Goldsmith (1949 - ) ............................................................................................................ 66 4 Gary Hamel (1954 - ) ........................................................................................................................ 67 James Collins (1958 - ) ...................................................................................................................... 68 Patrick Lencioni (1965 - ) .................................................................................................................. 69 Marcus Buckingham (1966 - ) ........................................................................................................... 70 Steven Zaccaro ................................................................................................................................. 71 George Graen .................................................................................................................................