Heroic Leadership: An Influence Taxonomy of 100 Exceptional Individuals [Paperback]

1. Introduction

2. Trending Heroes: Gaining or Losing Heroic Status

3. Transitory Heroes: Hero Today, Gone Tomorrow

4. Transitional Heroes: Those Whom We Outgrow

5. Tragic Heroes: The Self-Destruction of Greatness

6. Transposed Heroes: The Fine Line Between Heroism & Villainy

7. Transparent Heroes: The Unsung Heroes Among Us

8. Traditional-Moral Heroes

9. Traditional-Competent Heroes

10. Traditional-Complete Heroes

11. Transfigured Heroes: The Cognitive Construction of Greatness

12. Transforming Heroes: Those Who Forever Changed Our World

13. Transcendent Heroes: Influence at its Deepest Level

14. Conclusion: Leadership, Heroism, and Heroic Leadership

Heroic Leadership?is a celebration of our greatest heroes, from well-known legends to unsung heroes who transform our world quietly behind the scenes. Now in its second edition, it offers a compelling conceptual framework for understanding heroism and heroic leadership, drawing from theories of great leadership and heroic action.

Praise for the Previous Edition:

A pioneering and insightful examination of the intersection of heroes and leaders by two gifted psychologists. Allison and Goethals captivating narrative adds a new dimension to current research on leadership.
James MacGregor Burns, author of Leadership and Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox.

Allison and Goethals stimulating and incisive survey of one-hundred influential leaders could not be more cogent or timely. When so many of our leaders seem to have feet of clay and principles that bend with the prevailing breezes,they remind us of those leaders who rol3,