Micha Popper is Co-Director of the Center for Outstanding Leadership and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Haifa. He is also former Commanding Officer of the School for Leadership Development of the Israeli Defense Forces. He is author of Hypnotic Leadership: Leaders, Followers and the Loss of Self (Praeger, 2001).

"[T]he present title looks at constructive leaders (e.g., Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and David Ben-Gurion) as well destructive ones (e.g., Charles Manson, Jim Jones, Adolf Hitler) and examines the psychological forces that produce such leaders and their followers. Popper proposes a relational model to describe leaders who transform society, a relationship based on the mutual needs of leaders and followers. These mutual needs can be based on regressive relationships (in which leaders and followers regress to a narcissistic/dependent father/child behavior--the Manson model), developmental relationships (in which leaders act to empower and rear their followers--FDR), and symbolic relationships (in which the leader becomes an emotional symbol for the followers, as in the case of Mandela). This interesting book will serve a variety of disciplines. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." - Choice

• Introduction: What is Leadership? A Bird's Eye View of Leadership Analysis of the Main Perspectives on Leadership Transformational Leadership The Development of Transformational Leaders Conclusion

Micha Popper is Co-Director of the Center for Outstanding Leadership and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Haifa. He is also former Commanding Officer of the School for Leadership Development of the Israeli Defense Forces. He is author of Hypnotic Leadership: Leaders, Followers and the Loss of Self (Praeger, 2001).

"[T]he present title looks at constructive leaders (e.g., Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and David Ben-Gurion) as well destructive ones (e.g., Charles Manson, Jim Jones, Adolf Hitler) and examines the psychological forces that produce such leaders and their followers. Popper proposes a relational model to describe leaders who transform society, a relationship based on the mutual needs of leaders and followers. These mutual needs can be based on regressive relationships (in which leaders and followers regress to a narcissistic/dependent father/child behavior--the Manson model), developmental relationships (in which leaders act to empower and rear their followers--FDR), and symbolic relationships (in which the leader becomes an emotional symbol for the followers, as in the case of Mandela). This interesting book will serve a variety of disciplines. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." - Choice

• Introduction: What is Leadership? A Bird's Eye View of Leadership Analysis of the Main Perspectives on Leadership Transformational Leadership The Development of Transformational Leaders Conclusion