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.