The New Public Leadership Challenge

Author : S. Brookes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230277950
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Public Leadership Challenge written by S. Brookes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-05-13 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from the results of five seminars this unique book looks at the four areas of: public sector reform; essential features for public leaders; public leadership in action; and the outline of a public leadership approach for the future. It seeks to give public leadership a firm foothold within the study of leadership in general.

Author : Douglas F. Morgan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429832915
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Public Leadership written by Douglas F. Morgan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most leadership literature stems from and focuses on the private sector, emphasizing personal qualities that bind leaders and followers to a shared purpose. As the authors of New Public Leadership argue, if these shared purposes do not build trust and legitimacy in public institutions, such traditional leadership tropes fall short of the standard demanded by contemporary public servants.? For twenty years the authors have been developing a leadership education and training framework specifically designed to encourage public service professionals to ‘lead from where they sit.’ This book presents that comprehensive, integrated, and practical leadership framework, grounded in the uniqueness of public legal missions, culture, history and values. The authors explore three key elements of leadership success: 1) an understanding of our public service context, including the history, the values and the institutions that comprise our leadership setting, 2) a set of tools designed to help leaders initiate collective action in wicked challenge settings, and 3) tools to support sound judgment, enabling leaders to do the right thing in the right circumstances for the right reasons. The authors further provide readers with a basic understanding of democratic institutions, encouraging them to work within and across multiple vertical and horizontal systems of authority.? The book is organized into four sections, each of which is accompanied by a Master Case that provides the reader with an opportunity to apply the principles and leadership tools discussed in the text to practice. To further reinforce the practice-centered approach to leadership knowledge and skills, the authors have developed an accompanying EMERGE Leadership Handbook, complete with exercises, available online.? Written specifically with the practicing public manager in mind, this book arms public servants with a large repertoire of leadership skills, designed to accommodate changing public values and conflicting priorities at all levels of our public organizations.

Author : Sheila C. Grossman
Publisher : F.A. Davis
ISBN 13 : 1719645124
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Leadership Challenge written by Sheila C. Grossman and published by F.A. Davis. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is leadership? How do you develop your leadership abilities? How is leadership different from management? How does leadership contribute to professional and personal success…improve patient care…and affect the future of nursing? An easy-to-read, interactive approach helps you to identify the characteristics of leaders and followers and illustrates not only how, but also when to use the qualities associated with each to achieve professional and personal success. Excellent book for nurse leadership. “This should be mandatory reading for all nurses.”—John P., Online Reviewer

Author : James M. Kouzes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111927897X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Leadership Challenge written by James M. Kouzes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most trusted source of leadership wisdom, updated to address today's realities The Leadership Challenge is the gold-standard manual for effective leadership, grounded in research and written by the premier authorities in the field. With deep insight into the complex interpersonal dynamics of the workplace, this book positions leadership both as a skill to be learned, and as a relationship that must be nurtured to reach its full potential. This new sixth edition has been revised to address current challenges, and includes more international examples and a laser focus on business issues; you'll learn how extraordinary leaders accomplish extraordinary things, and how to develop your leadership skills and style to deliver quality results every time. Engaging stories delve into the fundamental roles that great leaders fulfill, and simple frameworks provide a primer for those who seek continuous improvement; by internalizing key insights and putting concepts into action, you'll become a more effective, more impactful leader. A good leader gets things done; a great leader aspires, inspires, and achieves more. This book highlights the differences between good and great, and shows you how to bridge the chasm between getting things done and making things happen. Gain deep insight into leadership's critical role in organizational health Navigate the shift toward team-oriented work relationships Motivate and inspire to break through the pervasive new cynicism Leverage the electronic global village to deliver better results Business is evolving at an increasingly rapid rate, and leaders must keep pace with the changes or risk stagnation. People work differently, are motivated differently, and have different expectations today—business as usual is quickly losing its effectiveness. The Leadership Challenge helps you stay current, relevant, and effective in the modern workplace.

Author : Stephen Brookes
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786439670
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Research Handbook on Public Leadership written by Stephen Brookes and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the unprecedented challenges facing public leaders brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, this comprehensive Research Handbook reframes the public leadership debate by offering new ways of thinking about leadership practices. Bringing together contributions from leading scholars across the world, this insightful Research Handbook illustrates how the decisions made by global leaders today will have widespread consequences for future generations.

Author : Patrick R. Leddin
Publisher : HarperCollins Leadership
ISBN 13 : 1400225310
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Five-Week Leadership Challenge written by Patrick R. Leddin and published by HarperCollins Leadership. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develop and expand your innate leadership abilities through daily exercises and challenges designed to help you grow into the leader you want to be and prepare you or the job you were made to have. A recent Harvard Business Review article outlining a study of over 17,000 leaders found that although, on average, people begin to supervise others at age 30, most do not start to receive formal leadership training until their forties. Don’t wait for training that doesn’t come until it’s too late. The Five-Week Leadership Challenge is an invaluable guide to help any aspiring leader begin a daily practice of exercises and challenges designed to develop and expand your innate leadership ability as quickly as possible. Patrick Leddin has served as a U.S. Army airborne, infantry, and ranger-qualified officer, founded and ran successful businesses, and trained thousands of leaders. In The Five-Week Leadership Challenge, Leddin shows you how to quickly build standout leadership skills so that when the next opportunity comes along, you're the only person for the job. The Five-Week Leadership Challenge: Includes 35 daily challenges designed to quickly develop standout leadership skills. Outlines the leadership habits you can practice regularly that get you noticed—and promoted, based on Leddin’s experience training and consulting thousands of leaders all over the world. Encourages you to share your completion of the leadership challenge on social media to exponentially expand your networking opportunities and receive bonus content and access to additional author tools.

Author : J. Thomas Wren
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1847207243
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventing Leadership written by J. Thomas Wren and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Wren s book is a masterpiece of intellectual history. It explores the philosophical and historical foundations of democracy in a compelling way. Wren is a sparkling and graceful writer. He makes a potentially dry subject come alive with wit and insight. The issues Wren addresses are extremely timely, as the United States endeavors to advance democracy in the Middle East. George Goethals, University of Richmond, US In this important analysis of democratic thought and treatise on leadership, historian Tom Wren drills down to the essential intellectual paradox: that leadership and democracy are inherently hostile concepts. Wren brilliantly strips down our fictions concerning these domains in his extensive deconstruction of both classical and modern thought. What emerges is a dialectical awakening and a practical new vision of citizen participation and enlightened leadership. Georgia Sorenson, James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, University of Maryland, College Park and US Army An excellent scholarly work that is well written and highly relevant within the context of contemporary politics. Although essential reading for teachers and students of political theory, it will also interest the general reader and armchair politician. First Trust Bank Economic Outlook and Business Review Wren is to be commended for attempting to lay bare the underlying assumptions and premises that inform any approach to politics. . . an important contribution to an ongoing conversation about what contemporary leadership should look like. Undergraduates will benefit from his review of important theorists, and practitioners should be challenged by Wren s own theses about leadership. Highly recommended. All readership levels. M.J. Watson, Choice The tension between ruler and ruled in democratic societies has never been satisfactorily resolved, and the competing interpretations of this relationship lie at the bottom of much modern political discourse. In this fascinating book, Thomas Wren clarifies and elevates the debates over leadership by identifying the fundamental premises and assumptions that underlie past and present understandings. The author traces the intellectual history of the central constructs: the leader, the people, and, ultimately, the relationship between them as they seek to accomplish societal objectives. He begins with a discussion of the invented notion of the classical paragon of a ruler. Next he pursues the invention of the countervailing concept of a sovereign people, and finally, the need for the invention of a new construct leadership which embodies a new relation between ruler and ruled in regimes dedicated to power in the people. In doing so, he draws upon the giants of the Western intellectual tradition as well as the insights of modern historians, political scientists, sociologists and leadership scholars. The book concludes with a proposed model of leadership for a modern democratic world. Elegantly written and masterfully argued, this comprehensive study will be essential reading for students and scholars of leadership and democracy.

Author : Rainer Koch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 383509100X
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Governance and Leadership written by Rainer Koch and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-03 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, internationally renowned scholars and practitioners elaborate on political as well as managerial questions, e.g. how to make overriding Public Governance changes the ’guiding model’ for a now needed stronger strategic approach. More specifically, their focus is on how moves towards a re-positioning as an enabling authority are to be made drivers for adapting management systems across all levels. In accordance with present developments, the authors explain how changes in the overall governance structure have to be used to adapt leadership practices in a more output-oriented or even entrepreneurial fashion. Overall, the underlying idea is to provide some further basics for a public sector type of a design-oriented management science.

Author : Jeffrey A. Raffel
Publisher : Edward Elgar Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781848440890
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Sector Leadership written by Jeffrey A. Raffel and published by Edward Elgar Pub. This book was released on 2009 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of this book define the issues facing public authorities and organizations in a range of developed nations as they address the challenges of the 21st century. They examine an array of ways leaders across these nations are addressing these challenges. the result is a comprehensive analysis of ways to improve leadership in the public sector and of the role of political and administrative leaders in shaping the future of the public sector. the overriding question addressed by this volume is how public leadership across the globe addresses new challenges (e.g., security, financial, demographic), new expectations of leaders (e.g., New Public Management, multi-sector service provision), and what leadership means in the new public sector.

Author : Ruth Wageman
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1633692043
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Senior Leadership Teams written by Ruth Wageman and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2008-01-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An organisation's fate hinges on its CEO—right? Not according to the authors of Senior Leadership Teams. They argue that in today's world of neck-snapping change, demands on leaders in top roles are rapidly outdistancing the capabilities of any one person - no matter how talented. Result? Chief executives are turning to their enterprise's senior leaders for help. Yet many CEOs stumble when creatinga leadership team. One major challenge is that senior executives often focus more on their individual roles than on the top team's shared work. Without the CEO's careful attention to setting the team up correctly, these high-powered managers often have difficulty pulling together to move their organisation forward. Sometimes they don't even agree about what constitutes the right path forward.The authors explain how to determine whether your organisation needs a senior leadership team. Then, drawing on their study of 100+ top teams from around the world, they explain how to create a clear and compelling purpose for your team, get the right people on it, provide structure and support, and sharpen team members' competencies - and your own. Timely and practical, this book enables you to create and sustain a leadership team whose members learn from one another while collaborating to pursue your company's objectives.