Leadership and innovation : entrepreneurs in government
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Leadership and innovation : entrepreneurs in government
（Johns Hopkins paperbacks）
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990
Abridged ed
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Jameson W. Doig and Erwin C. Hargrove outline a perspective on leadership in government that emphasizes entrepreneurship. They show how government executives' ability to set goals, generate support inside and outside the bureaucracy, and implement innovative ideas-- even at risk to their own careers-- can have a significant impact on their organizations and on society. In this abridged edition, biographical studies of David Lilienthal, Hyman Rickover, James Webb, Nancy Hanks, Robert McNamara, Wilbur Cohen, Robert Ball, and Austin Tobin illustrate a variety of skills and strategies used by effective executives. Doig and Hargrove describe their styles as ranging from "rhetorical leaders" to "entrepreneurial administrators". Yet these diverse leaders share some important traits, including a capacity to see historical opportunity, the ability to mobilize constituencies, and a desire to "make a difference".
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Preface to the First Edition
Chapter 1. "Leadership" and Political Analysis
Part I. Rhetorical Leaders
Chapter 2. David Lilienthal and the Tennessee Valley Authority
Chapter 3. Admiral Hyman Rickover: Technological Entrepreneaurship in the U.S. Navy
Chapter 4. To Claim the Seas and the Skies: Austin Tobin and the Port of New York Authority
Chapter 5. James Webb and the Uses of Administrative Power
Part II. Administrative Entrepreneurs
Chapter 6. The Politics of Art: Nancy Hanks and the National Endowment for the Arts
Chapter 7. Entrepreneurship in Public Management: Wilbur Cohen and Robert Ball
Chapter 8. Robert McNamara: Success and Failure
Notes on Contributors
Index
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