ABSTRACT

The contributors to this wide-ranging volume seek to define exactly what leadership is or should be, and how to effectively develop it. Guided by an unusual framework that looks at leadership across different sectors and functions, they examine what they view as the major leadership challenges in highly visible for-profit, not-for-profit, and government organizations throughout the world. Their insights will prove equally useful as a general survey of leadership problems for executive policy makers, and for undergraduate and graduate students in the specific fields examined in the text.

part I|84 pages

Leadership in For-Profit Organizations

chapter 1|22 pages

From Monopoly to Competition

Challenges for Leaders in the Deregulated Investor-Owned Utility Industry

chapter 2|21 pages

Reforming Wall Street

Challenges for Financial Leaders in Publicly Traded Firms

chapter 3|19 pages

Beyond Wall Street

Leadership Challenges Unique to Small Private Companies and Entrepreneurial Firms

chapter 4|20 pages

Knowledge Management Leadership Challenges

Coping with Mental Models and Operationalizing Knowledge Management Strategy and Practice

part III|82 pages

Leadership in Government Organizations

chapter 9|20 pages

Notes from the Belly of the Beast

Leadership Challenges in the Federal Government

chapter 11|21 pages

Leadership Challenges in Education

Improving Administrative Decision Making

chapter 12|21 pages

Leadership Challenges in Local Government

Economic Development, Financial Management, and Ethical Leadership

part IV|82 pages

Leadership Across Multiple Organizational Contexts

chapter 14|20 pages

Engaging People's Passion

Leadership for the New Century

chapter 15|17 pages

“HR-Minded” Leadership

Five Critical Areas of Focus for Contemporary Organizational Leaders

chapter 16|22 pages

Leaders Speak

Success and Failure in Their Own Words

part V|90 pages

Global Leadership

chapter 17|27 pages

Worldview and Global Leadership

chapter 18|19 pages

What Good Is This to Me?

Managerial Implications of Global Leadership Research

chapter 19|19 pages

New Rules for a New Century

Help for Management and Leadership in This New Global Century

chapter 20|23 pages

Restoring Ethics Consciousness to Organizations and the Workplace

Every Contemporary Leader's Challenge