Foreword / The Honorable David M. Walker
Preface and acknowledgments / Terry F. Buss
Introduction: the transformation of public leadership / Ricardo S. Morse and Terry F. Buss
Politics, administration, and public leadership
Transformational leadership / Newt Gingrich
Public leadership as gardening / H. George Frederickson and David S.T. Matkin
21st century career leaders / Dwight Ink
Leadership by top administrators in a changing world: new challenges in political-administrative relations / James H. Svara
Leadership frames
Trans-leadership: linking influential theory and contemporary research / Matthew R. Fairholm
The changing leadership landscape: a military perspective / George Reed and Georgia Sorenson
Leading at the edge of chaos / Nanette M. Blandin
Transformational stewardship: leading public sector change / James Edwin Kee, Kathryn E. Newcomer, and S. Mike Davis
Leadership and collaboration
Leadership for the common good: creating regimes of mutual gain / John M. Bryson and Barbara C. Crosby
Creating public value using managed networks / Edward DeSeve
Consensus building and leadership / John B. Stephens
The challenge of leading through networks: institutional analysis as a way forward / Brent Never
Leading change in different contexts
Leadership and management in local government / Karl Nollenberger
Four-frame leadership in authentic, results-oriented management reform: case studies in Canada and the United States / Brendan F. Burke and Bernadette C. Costello
Leadership strategies for large-scale IT implementations in government / Marilu Goodyear and Mark R. Nelson
Government's new breed of change agents: leading the War on Terror / Daniel P. Forrester
Leadership and ethics in decision making by public managers / Christine Gibbs Springer
About the editors and contributors
Index.
Transforming public leadership for the 21st century. ISBN 9780765620415. Published by M.E. Sharpe, Inc. in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.