“Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.”– James MacGregor Burns Related Quotes “Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.”– Tom Peters “Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?”– Rahm Emanuel “Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation’s conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.”– James MacGregor Burns