Understanding Public Leadership. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: 't Hart, Paul
• Contents: Cover; Contents ; List of Illustrative Material ; Preface ; 1 Unlocking Public Leadership ; Why bother? ; Understanding leadership: art, science, industry ; Public leadership as cause and consequence ; Public leadership and public management ; People and process: leaders, followers and relations ; Who leads matters, sometimes: people, contexts and situations ; When is leadership 'good'? ; The art and profession of leading ; 2 The Work of Public Leadership ; The 'public' in public leadership ; Political leadership ; Administrative leadership ; Civic leadership ; The tools of public leadership. Conclusions 3 Leading with Authority ; Follow the leader? ; Leadership as relationship ; A follower's dilemma: coping with bad leaders ; The ebbs and flows of leadership authority ; Assessing authority ; 4 Leading with Others ; Leadership as teamwork ; Leadership in shared power settings ; 5 Leading in Context ; Contingency approaches to leadership ; Institutional rules as context ; Time as context ; Placing leadership in time ; Organizational life cycles as leadership challenges ; Conclusions ; 6 Leading in Crises ; The heat of crisis ; Crises: realities and perceptions. Challenges of crisis leadership Dealing with the inevitable ; 7 Evaluating Public Leadership ; From hero to villain, and back ; The public leadership assessment triangle ; Applying the assessment triangle ; Conclusion: from producing rankings to generating reflection ; 8 Memo to an Agent of Change ; And now for something completely different & ; Game 1: Reading the context of reform ; Game 2: Arguing the case for reform ; Game 3: Getting change adopted ; Game 4: Making reforms stick ; The case for prudence ; 9 Retrofitting Public Leadership ; Looking ahead. Retrofitting the leadership industry Appendix: Ten 'Must-Reads' on (Public) Leadership ; Bibliography ; Index.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 352.236; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration; Political leadership; Leadership; Civil leaders; Community leadership; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1137450576; 9781137450579
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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