LEADING MINDS - AN ANATOMY OF LEADERSHIP - GARDNER,H, LASKIN,E

In this double-barreled review, two leading authors present different but complementary theories of leadership. Warren Bennis reviews Howard Gardner's Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership, predicting that it will become a classic text on leadership. Leaders, Gardner says, tell or embody stories that speak to other people. To prove his point, Gar dner has brought together the stories of 11 distinguished leaders, beg inning with Margaret Mead and ending with Mahatma Gandhi. Readers may or may not agree with Gardner's theoretical framework, but they are bo und to find his stories full of insight and illuminating detail. Harry Levinson presents us with ''The Leader as Analyst,'' a review of Manf red F.R. Kets de Vries's Life and Death in the Executive Fast Lane. In Kets de Vries's view of leadership, leaders often go astray because t hey fail to understand and deal with the deep emotions and hidden moti ves of the people who follow them. Savvy executives, according to Kets de Vries, can no longer afford to ignore the fuzzy realm of emotions and relationships.