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transformational and visionary leadership  

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  • In his seminal book Leadership (1978), the scholar James MacGregor Burns concluded that there were two types of leaders: transformational leaders and transactional leaders. This taxonomy was built around the notion of an exchange between the leader and the followers. [Source: Encyclopedia of Leadership; Transformational and Visionary Leadership]

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