%% #💡 #🟠 %% # fundamental option - term originally comes from moral theology - "used to indicate the life direction or stable orientation that exists at the core level of the human person" (p. 18) - fundamental option can refer to leader's stable orientation toward either self-transcendence or self-embeddedness - both are connected to Bass' four characteristics of [[transformational leadership]], but "only the fundamental option for self-transcendence leads to moral leadership that Burns described" (p. 19). ## Sources [[Practice of Leadership - Carey]] ## Tags [[transformational leadership]] | [[self-transcendence]] --- <small>*Created on:* 2021-08-14</small> <small>*Last modified on:* 2022-11-05</small>