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PART II: INTERPERSONAL AND TEAM PROCESSES
Leaders are truly transformational when they increase the awareness of what is right, good,
important, and beautiful, when they help to elevate followers’ needs for achievement and self-
actualization, when they foster in followers high moral maturity, and when they move followers
to go beyond their self-interests for the good of their group, organization, or society.
In a similar vein Kumar Mangalam Birla states, “Transformational leadership to me means
leadership in its highest form, such that it transcends the trappings of hierarchies, authority,
power, as well as formal and informal systems of rewar ...