Michael Beschloss has no doubt that Biden is a transformational president

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and he thinks his mentor, James McGregor Burns, would agree.

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From the Wikipedia page on Burns' writings about leadership:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_MacGregor_Burns

Theory of leadership

Burns' Leadership (1978) founded the field of leadership studies, introducing two types of leadership: transactional leadership, in which leaders focus on the relationship between the leader and follower, and transformational leadership, in which leaders focus on the beliefs, needs, and values of their followers.[14]

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Leadership over human beings is exercised when persons with certain motives and purposes mobilize, in competition or conflict with others, institutional, political, psychological, and other resources so as to arouse, engage, and satisfy the motives of followers... in order to realize goals mutually held by both leaders and followers....
Transformational leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.
That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership and the moral and practical theme of this work.

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1. Rt TY!

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4. +1

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3. This guy...our president....makes me sooo proud