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1 online resource (390 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. The Transformation of Public Leadership; Part I. Politics, Administration, and Public Leadership; 2. Transformational Leadership; 3. Public Leadership as Gardening; 4. Twenty-First-Century Career Leaders; 5. Leadership by Top Administrators in a Changing World: New Challenges in Political-Administrative Relations; Part II. Leadership Frames; 6. Trans-leadership: Linking Influential Theory and Contemporary Research; 7. The Changing Leadership Landscape: A Military Perspective |
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8. Leading at the Edge of Chaos9. Transformational Stewardship: Leading Public-Sector Change; Part III. Leadership and Collaboration; 10. Leadership for the Common Good: Creating Regimes of Mutual Gain; 11. Creating Public Value Using Managed Networks; 12. Consensus Building and Leadership; 13. The Challenge of Leading through Networks: Institutional Analysis as a Way Forward; Part IV. Leading Change in Different Contexts; 14. Leadership and Management in Local Government; 15. Four-Frame Leadership in Authentic, Results-oriented Management Reform: Case Studies in Canada and the United States |
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16. Leadership Strategies for Large-scale IT Implementations in Government17. Government's New Breed of Change Agents: Leading the War on Terror; 18. Leadership and Ethics in Decision Making by Public Managers; About the Editors and Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
The forces of globalization are shifting our world, including the public sector, away from hierarchy and command and control toward one of collaboration and networks. The way public leadership is thought about and practiced must be, and is being, transformed. This volume in the ""Transformational Trends in Governance & Democracy"" series explores what the shift looks like and also offers guidance on what it should look like. Specifically, the book focuses on the role of ""career leaders""--Those in public service - who are agents of change not only in their own organizations, but also in thei |
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Print version record |
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Public administration -- United States
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Leadership -- United States.
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Organizational change -- United States
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Political leadership -- United States
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Leadership
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Organizational change
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Political leadership
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Public administration
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Buss, Terry F
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Kinghorn, C. Morgan
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| ISBN |
9781317453291 |
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1317453298 |
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