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Confucianism as a
Leadership Philosophy

a Berkshire Byte

From the Encyclopedia of Leadership, edited by James MacGregor Burns, George R.Goethals, and Georgia J. Sorenson. A Berkshire Reference Work, published by Sage (2004).

by Yuelin Zhu, Harvard University

"Confucianism, as viewed by the German sociologist Max Weber, is a doctrine similar to Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam, which laid down the fundamental principles for establishing a social and political system as well as for pursuing the values of life; it thus inevitably is not only concerned with leadership, but also elaborates on it deliberately."

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