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Changing Minds

Howard Gardner

2004244 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2004
first published
  • 2004Harvard Business School Press · 288 pages · ENGISBN 9781578517091
  • 2006Harvard Business School Press · 244 pages · ENGISBN 9781422103296

Gardner defines leadership as the ability to change minds, using examples of various leaders (e.g., Margaret Thatcher, Mohandas Gandhi, James O. Freedman, President Bush, Tony Blair, and South Africa's Nelson Mandela.) as models for future action. He argues that we must use different intelligences to change minds in different settings and expands upon this idea by citing seven relevant factors-reason, research, resonance, representational redescriptions, resources and rewards, real-world events, and resistances.

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