ABSTRACT
Based on her understanding of effective human beings, Ida P. Rolf could rightly conclude that effective presidential leadership is greater than the sum of its parts. A paradox, indeed. Theories about effective presidential leadership abound. But in each instance, they explain only a part and not the whole. On the artist’s canvas of effective presidential leadership, theories constitute parts of the picture but not the whole picture. Taken individually, they help to
explain the larger picture of presidential leadership, but they are not the picture itself. So theories selectively illumine our understanding of presidential leadership, but they do not explain the whole. At best, theories unveil the big picture of presidential leadership.
