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Public Sector Leadership
Edited by Jeffrey A. Raffel, Peter Leisink, Anthony E. Middlebrooks
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 add...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Entrepreneur as Business Leader
Silke Scheer
An entrepreneur who decides to found a firm and to hire employees has to tackle two central problems: their employees’ coordination and motivation. Drawing on findings from cognitive, social and organizational psychology, this book sheds...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Inventing Leadership
J. Thomas Wren
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, Th...eBook:Find out more$71.96
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The Leadership Dilemma in Modern Democracy
Kenneth P. Ruscio
It is impossible to imagine effective democracies without effective leaders. Yet leaders are often seen as the problem democratic governance is designed to solve, not the solution. Through a careful but lively critique of some of the cla... -
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Ethics and Integrity of Governance
Edited by Leo W.J.C. Huberts, Jeroen Maesschalck, Carole L. Jurkiewicz
This book provides critical, up-to-date reviews on the field of ethics and integrity of governance, along with fresh future perspectives. Focusing on Europe and the US, it addresses the key dimensions of public service values, the integr...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Quest for a General Theory of Leadership
Edited by George R. Goethals, Georgia L.J. Sorenson
In this compelling book, top scholars from diverse fields describe the progress they have made in developing a general theory of leadership. Led by James MacGregor Burns, Pulitzer Prize winning author of the classic Leadership (1978), th...eBook:Find out more$46.36
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Reform and Leadership in the Public Sector
Joe L. Wallis, Brian E. Dollery, Linda McLoughlin
The authors provide a fresh and accessible multi-disciplinary perspective on public management reform in this study. The work includes a broad survey of the paradigms and patterns that have shaped and differentiated the reform process in...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Leadership for Sustainable Futures
Gayle C. Avery
Many managers in the English-speaking world are seeking an alternative to the prevailing business model which promotes a short-term, shareholder-value approach. In this accessible and highly topical book, Gayle Avery argues that this Ang...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Leadership in Context
Mark N. Wexler
Leaders are made, not born, Mark Wexler argues, and they cannot be understood in a vacuum. There is no simple answer as to why certain people select one leader over others. Those who look for a master story within capitalism to encapsula... -
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The Quest for Moral Leaders
Edited by Joanne B. Ciulla, Terry L. Price, Susan E. Murphy
The quest for moral leaders is both a personal quest that takes place in the hearts and minds of leaders and a pursuit by individuals, groups, organizations, communities and societies for leaders who are both ethical and effective. The c...eBook:Find out more$44.76
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Lessons on Leadership by Terror
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
Lessons on Leadership by Terror attempts to discover what happens to people when they acquire power, and whether the abuse of power is inevitable. Manfred Kets de Vries examines the life of the nineteenth-century Zulu king Shaka Zulu in ...eBook:Find out more$40.76
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The Moral Capital of Leaders
Alejo José G. Sison
Sison studies a wide range of recent management cases from the viewpoint of moral capital: the sorry state of US airport screeners before 9-11, the Ford Explorer rollovers and Firestone tire failures, the battle for the ‘HP way’ between ...eBook:Find out more$55.16