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# 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]]
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<small>*Created on:* 2021-08-14</small>
<small>*Last modified on:* 2022-11-05</small>