James MacGregor Burns was born in 1918 and is an award-winning writer, a Pulitzer Prize winner and biographer who specializes in the study of leadership. He was the one to embark on a more philosophical approach to understanding and describing leadership, and coined the theory of "transformational leadership" – leadership that delivers true value, integrity, and trust. Burns showed a way to a general theory of leadership. He is best known for his contributions to the transformational, aspirational, and visionary schools of leadership theory. Burn’s Key novelty in leadership theory was shifting from the study of traits in a great leader and transactional management, to focus on the interactions of leaders and those they lead, as collaborators working toward a mutual benefit.
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