Leadership for the Common Good: Tackling Public Problems in a Shared-Power World (Jossey Bass Public Administration Series) - Hardcover

Bryson, John M.; Crosby, Barbara C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555424805 ISBN 13: 9781555424800

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1992

Synopsis

Leadership for the Common Good explains how community leaders can inspire and mobilize others to undertake collective action for the common good.This book provides a new vision of leadership to help solve pressing public problems, offers concrete advice on how business leaders, community groups, and public officials can share power and resources to accomplish positive change. It outlines the process by which public policy is formed, adopted, and implemented.

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Leadership for the Common Good explains how community leaders can inspire and mobilize others to undertake collective action for the common good. This book provides a new vision of leadership to help solve pressing public problems, offers concrete advice on how business leaders, community groups, and public officials can share power and resources to accomplish positive change. It outlines the process by which public policy is formed, adopted, and implemented."A solid, substantial, and wide-ranging work." —James McGregor Burns, author of Leadership

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The Authors

BARBARA C. CROSBY is an associate professor at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University Minnesota, Minneapolis. She conducts workshops on, and has written extensively about, leadership and public policy, women in leadership, and strategic planning. A frequent speaker at conferences and workshops, she has conducted training for senior managers of nonprofit, business, and government organizations in the U.S., United Kingdom, Poland, and Ukraine.

JOHN M. BRYSON is a professor of planning and public affairs and associate dean for research and centers at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He consults widely on leadership and strategic planning with public, nonprofit, and for-profit organizations in the United States and abroad. He is the author of Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations andCreating and Implementing Your Strategic Plan (with Farnum K. Alston), both from Jossey-Bass.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1555424805
• ISBN 13: 9781555424800
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464