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Narcissism And Leadership: A Review And Research Agenda
(Center for Public Leadership, 2006-01-04)It is clear that a significant number of world leaders have rigidly grandiose belief systems and leadership styles. Often, the authors who recount the “psychohistories” of these leaders connect both the leaders’ assent ... -
National Leadership Index 2005: A National Study of Confidence in Leadership
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National Leadership Index 2006: A National Study of Confidence in Leadership
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National Leadership Index 2007: A National Study of Confidence in Leadership
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National Leadership Index 2008: A National Study of Confidence in Leadership
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National Leadership Index 2009: A National Study of Confidence in Leadership
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Not So Lonely At The Top?: An Exploratory Study Of The Multiple Commitments Of Aspiring Leaders
(Center for Public Leadership, 2006-01-10)Leadership is often viewed as a lonely endeavor, as this quote exemplifies. Leaders are frequently perceived as standing “alone” at the top of the hierarchy. Drive and sustained commitment have been linked to the attainment ... -
One of Us: Social Identity, Group Belonging and Leadership
(Center for Public Leadership, 2005-01-01)The title of this paper suggests a paradox. Leaders are simultaneously separate from and the same as their followers. They have higher status, greater influence, and more power, and occupy a different role, but they are ... -
Presidents, Their Styles and Their Leadership
(Center for Public Leadership, 2005-01-11)If one set out to design a democracy in which the personal qualities of the top leader could be expected to have an impact on political outcomes, the result might well resemble the political system of the United States. ... -
Psychoanalyzing Presidents Without a Couch: Lessons from the William J. Clinton and George W. Bush Presidencies
(Center for Public Leadership, 2004-01-04)In this paper I address the usefulness of the psychoanalytic framework in studying U.S. presidents and by implication political leaders more generally.1 I ask why such a framework is important for studying political leaders ... -
Public Health Leadership In The 21st Century
(Center for Public Leadership, 2006-01-07)Leadership in public health requires stretching the mind and soul in almost unimaginable ways. Living the dynamic tension of health as “part individual good served by medicine and part public good secured by public health ... -
Regulatory Review: Presidential Control Through Selective Communication and Institutional Conflict
(Center for Public Leadership, 2003)The range and quantity of government activity has grown exponentially over the course of this century. In response, an "institutional Presidency" has developed. Today’s President is at the locus of a network of relationships ... -
Rethinking Leadership, or Team LEaders Are Not Music Directors
(Center for Public Leadership, 2004-01-08)Let us begin with a thought experiment. Think for a moment about one of the finest groups you have every seen—one that accomplished its work superbly, that got better and better as a performing unit over time, and whose ... -
Running Alone- And Together: Presidential Leadership In A Divided System
(Center for Public Leadership, 2006-01-03)On the morning of November 5, 1956, Democrats across America were in despair. Dwight Eisenhower had done it again. His first victory, in 1952, had been understandable—memories of his military leadership in World War II ... -
Self-Defeating Leader Behavior: Why Leaders Misuse Their Power And Influence
(Center for Public Leadership, 2005-01-12)Few concepts in the social sciences are invoked with the same ease or employed so readily to explain so many social and institutional outcomes as power. The concept of power has been used to explain, for example, how ... -
Should Officials Obey The Law?: (And What Is "The Law," Anyway?)
(Center for Public Leadership, 2006-01-09)Should Presidents obey the law? And how about governors, mayors, admirals, sergeants, members of Congress, police officers, and various other public officials? To many people, the answer to the question is obviously ... -
Social Entrepreneurship: Leadership that Facilitates Societal Transformation-An Exploratory Study
(Center for Public Leadership, 2003)This study provides a comparative analysis of seven cases of social entrepreneurship that have been widely recognized as successful. The paper suggests factors associated with successful social entrepreneurship, particularly ... -
Supporting School System Leaders: The State of Executive Training Programs for School Superintendents
(Center for Public Leadership, 2005-01-04)The leadership challenges faced by school superintendents are well documented, along with the critical nature of their leadership to sustaining school and school district improvement. (McCabe-Cabron, et al., 2005; Williams, ... -
Through Their Own Words: Towards a New Understanding of Leadership Through Metaphors
(Center for Public Leadership, 2003)This paper suggests that metaphors are essential to understanding leadership. Metaphors can serve as underlying, organizing structures of leadership thinking and experience, and they can be mobilized in order to accomplish ... -
Transformational Leadership And American Foreign Policy: A Preliminary Analysis
(Center for Public Leadership, 2006-01-11)Foreign policy is usually over-determined. The “national interest” often appears to be an immutable dictation of the international system and of domestic politics. As Henry Kissinger put it when he was Secretary of State, ...