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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 ... -
Mobilizing Public Support for the United Nations
(Center for Public Leadership, 2003)This paper examines a critical case of Executive Branch leadership during the creation of the United Nations. Before his death, President Franklin Roosevelt hoped that the wartime alliance would become the cornerstone of ... -
Why Lead Labor?: Projects and Pathways in California Unions, 1984-2001
(Center for Public Leadership, 2003)This paper explores how union leadership has developed over the last 20 years. While other studies have focused on the careers of top leaders or new recruits, we examine the careers of rising leaders over time. Finding ... -
Building Effective Intra-Organizational Networks: The Role of Teams
(Center for Public Leadership, 2003)This paper integrates the largely independent literatures on networks and teams. Our objective is twofold: (1) To understand what constitutes an effective organizational network when much of the work of the organization ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Iceberg and the Titanic: Electoral Defeat, Policy Moods, and Party Change
(Center for Public Leadership, 2003-01-01)Multiple factors can be offered to explain the Labour victory and Conservative defeat in the 2001 British general election. Here we pursue one of the most interesting explanations offered by a modified Downsian model of ... -
Management as a Profession
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Changing the World from the Bottom Up: Leadership in Grassroots Social-Change Organizations
(Center for Public Leadership, 2004-01-02)The challenges of leadership in grassroots social-change organizations (SCOs) are daunting: the task is large, but funding is limited and uneven, and there is often a tension between financial stability and mission ... -
Leading in Complex Political Environments: What We Are Learning from Superintendents of Education
(Center for Public Leadership, 2004-01-03)This working paper examines some of the key issues and challenges confronting some of the most significant actors in American political affairs—superintendents of education—and explores how they can drive meaningful ... -
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 ... -
Legitimacy In A Bastard Kingdom
(Center for Public Leadership, 2004-01-05)"Now, gods, stand up for bastards!" No, this is not the prayer of the New York litigator; it is the battle cry of Edmund, bastard son of the Earl of Gloucester and one of the great early modern theorists of political ... -
Leader Authenticity Markers: Findings From A Study of African-American Leaders
(Center for Public Leadership, 2004-01-06)Authenticity has become a central concept in leadership studies, but the question of how followers assess the authenticity of their political leaders has not been addressed. With few exceptions, the literature on ... -
What is Good Leadership?
(Center for Public Leadership, 2004-01-07)The moral triumphs and failures of leaders carry a greater weight and volume than those of nonleaders. In leadership we see morality and immorality magnified, which is why ethics is fundamental to our understanding of ... -
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 ... -
Learning To Be Civic: Higher Education and Student Life, 1890-1940
(Center for Public Leadership, 2004-01-09)All studies of American civic life identify the years between 1890 and 1940 as the high tide of civic engagement: the period in which voluntary associations and other formal organizations, for profit and nonprofit, ... -
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 ... -
Formal and Informal Discrimination Against Women At Work: The Role of Gender Stereotypes
(Center for Public Leadership, 2005-01-02)When asked to think about a hostile environment for women in the workplace, many of us would first envision overt instances of sexual harassment or blatant employment discrimination. These associations are certainly not ... -
Meta-Leadership and National Emergency Preparedness: Strategies to Build Government Connectivity
(Center for Public Leadership, 2005-01-03)The acute threat of internationally driven and homeland-directed terrorism has changed the rules and expectations for governmental action, interaction, and willpower. Unprecedented coordination of resources, information, ... -
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, ...