{"id":1125,"date":"2019-10-09T10:47:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T14:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2019-10-15T14:02:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T18:02:46","slug":"transforming-vs-transformational-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/10\/09\/transforming-vs-transformational-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 7: Transforming vs. Transformational Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Richard Couto\u2019s article offers an in-depth description of \u201ctransforming leadership\u201d as defined by James MacGregor Burns in his 1978 book, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Leadership<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Couto notes that transforming leaders \u201cengage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality\u201d (Couto 103). The author notes that while his definition of transforming leadership was an important contribution to the field of leadership studies, but Bernard Bass reclaimed the idea to more applicable terms. Couto argues that the idea of transforming leadership may be unattainable because it can \u201cdistract us from the important task of being as effective as one can be to transform this set of conditions and causal factors in the here and now with little hope of epoch change\u201d (107). Therefore, Bass\u2019s reclaimed idea of \u201ctransformational leadership\u201d as a one-way influence of leaders onto their followers, rather than the interaction of leaders and followers. Bass\u2019s term means a form of leadership where leaders essentially transform their followers through idealized influence, inspiration, individualized consideration, and intellectual stimulation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Couto explains that Burns and Bass sought to define this type of leadership in different contexts; for Burns, in social movements, and for Bass, in formal institutions such as schools and industry. This article got me thinking about examples of who Burns would define as a \u201ctransforming\u201d leader and who Bass would define as a \u201ctransformational\u201d leader. Burns qualifies \u201cLenin, Mao, Gandhi, and Luther\u201d (106) as transforming leaders. Bass, however, focuses on leaders that may apply in \u201cformal organizations and institutions\u201d (106), such as \u201cschool principals, CEO\u2019s, and military officers,\u201d (106). A leader in a school setting, for example, may possess similar traits as leaders such as Gandhi, but it would be a stretch to argue that they can be measured on the same scale. Couto offers an explanation on the differences between transforming and transformational leaders and how scholars should make the distinction when analyzing leaders in all different contexts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anna Marston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Couto\u2019s article offers an in-depth description of \u201ctransforming leadership\u201d as defined by James MacGregor Burns in his 1978 book, Leadership. Couto notes that transforming&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/10\/09\/transforming-vs-transformational-leadership\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blog Post 7: Transforming vs. Transformational Leadership<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4302,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4302"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}