ABSTRACT

In preparing for our conference on a long-lens approach to leadership development, we absolutely wanted to hear from Howard Gardner from Harvard and his latest interests in developing leaders. We were fortunate that at the time he was working with a group of people including Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, at Claremont Graduate University, at the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, now in the Graduate School of Psychology School of Behavioral Science, attempting to understand those who stand out as leaders and how they remained on the “good work track.” What follows is an edited transcript of that presentation on February 27, 2007.