ABSTRACT
In this chapter I focus on the motivational aspects of leadership. Motives, both as conscious representations of desired states of affairs and as unconscious or implicit strivings, represent the “purposes” or end points-the goals toward which we use our many and varied intelligences to guide our behavior. As we have seen in the other chapters of this book, the domain of leadership involves many different kinds of “intelligence”—cognitive resources, social and sociopolitical intelligence, emotional intelligence, tacit knowledge and practical intelligence, and cultural intelligence. In the end, however, it is the leaders’ motives that determine the leadership goals toward which these multiple intelligences will be mobilized and directed.
