The New Public Leadership Challenge [Hardcover]

This book offers a new insight into leadership in the public sector:
It describes public leadership as a form of collective leadership in which leaders from a range of public, private and voluntary organisations share a common aim in improving the life of communities. It examines the current focus on public service reform and highlights the impact that performance targets have had on leadership.
The importance of the role of the individual leader is acknowledged, but it argues that this role is not to provide the answers but to ask intelligent questions in tackling wicked issues that undermine well being. The book explores the experience of reform across the sector and sets some tough challenges for government, public institutions and their leaders.
It will be of benefit to all who are interested in what the future holds for public services and prompts a different way of thinking about leadership.

This book examines the background and experience of public sector reform and its impact on public leadership

STEPHEN BROOKES is a Senior Fellow at Manchester Business School where he specialises in leadership, public management and performance across public services. He previously served as a senior police officer in a thirty year career and immediately prior to his appointment at Manchester was a founding regional Home Office Director.

KEITH GRINT is Professor of Public Leadership and Management at Warwick Business School and was formerly Professor of Defence Leadership at Cranfield University and Leadership Studies at Lancaster Leadership Centre. He taught for 12 years at Oxford University and has published 14 books on leadership and related areas.