Transforming Public Leadership for the 21st Century (Transformational Trends in Governance

393 Pages·2007·2.9 MB·English

by  Terry F. Buss, Ricardo S. Morse, C. Morgan Kinghorn, David M. Walker

TRANSFORMATIONAL TRENDS IN
GOVERNANCE AND DEMOCRACY
National Academy of Public Administration
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About the Academy
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Transforming
Public Leadership for
the 21st Century
Edited by Ricardo S. Morse
Terry F. Buss
C. Morgan Kinghorn
Foreword by David M. Walker
TRANSFORMATIONAL TRENDS IN
GOVERNANCE AND DEMOCRACY
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Transforming public leadership for the 21st century / edited by Ricardo S.
Morse, Terry F. Buss, and C. Morgan Kinghorn.
p. cm. — (Transformational trends in governance & democracy)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7656-2041-5 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Public administration—United States. 2. Leadership—United States. 3. Organizational
change—United States. 4. Political leadership—United States. I. Morse, Ricardo S., 1971–
II. Buss, Terry F. III. Kinghorn, C. Morgan, 1946–
JK421.T86 2007
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We dedicate this book to the memory of
Larry Terry,
scholar, colleague, public servant.
Contents
Foreword
The Honorable David M. Walker ix
Preface and Acknowledgments
Terry F. Buss xiii
1. The Transformation of Public Leadership
Ricardo S. Morse and Terry F. Buss 3
Part I. Politics, Administration, and Public Leadership
2. Transformational Leadership
Newt Gingrich 23
3. Public Leadership as Gardening
H. George Frederickson and David S.T. Matkin 34
4. Twenty-First-Century Career Leaders
Dwight Ink 47
5. Leadership by Top Administrators in a Changing World:
New Challenges in Political-Administrative Relations
James H. Svara 69
Part II. Leadership Frames
6. Trans-leadership: Linking Influential Theory and
Contemporary Research
Matthew R. Fairholm 105
7. The Changing Leadership Landscape: A Military Perspective
George Reed and Georgia Sorenson 125
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8. Leading at the Edge of Chaos
Nanette M. Blandin 138
9. Transformational Stewardship: Leading Public-Sector Change
James Edwin Kee, Kathryn Newcomer, and S. Mike Davis 154
Part III. Leadership and Collaboration
10. Leadership for the Common Good: Creating Regimes of Mutual Gain
John M. Bryson and Barbara C. Crosby 185
11. Creating Public Value Using Managed Networks
Edward DeSeve 203
12. Consensus Building and Leadership
John B. Stephens 221
13. The Challenge of Leading through Networks: Institutional
Analysis as a Way Forward
Brent Never 243
Part IV. Leading Change in Different Contexts
14. Leadership and Management in Local Government
Karl Nollenberger 263
15. Four-Frame Leadership in Authentic, Results-oriented Management
Reform: Case Studies in Canada and the United States
Brendan F. Burke and Bernadette C. Costello 284
16. Leadership Strategies for Large-scale IT Implementations
in Government
Marilu Goodyear and Mark R. Nelson 308
17. Government’s New Breed of Change Agents:
Leading the War on Terror
Daniel P. Forrester 324
18. Leadership and Ethics in Decision Making by Public Managers
Christine Gibbs Springer 344
About the Editors and Contributors 357
Index 365
Foreword
THE HONORABLE DAVID M. WALKER
COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
In the twenty-first century, our nation faces, both at home and overseas, a range of
unprecedented challenges and opportunities that know no geopolitical boundaries.
These challenges and opportunities include powerful demographic trends, such as
an aging population and slowing workforce growth; terrorism and other security
threats; impact of globalization on issues ranging from trade to public health;
and rapid advances in science and technology. Due to the retirement of the baby
boomers and the subsequent “baby bust,” along with rising health care costs and
relatively low federal revenues as a percentage of the economy, the United States
also faces a growing fiscal imbalance that, absent meaningful reforms, threatens
future generations with staggering debt levels and tax burdens.
To address these and other complex issues, our government must move
beyond long-standing but often ineffective ways of doing business. Too much
of today’s government is based on economic, demographic, national security,
workforce, and other conditions from the 1950s and 1960s. In addition, too
many existing government spending and tax policies are on autopilot. This
situation is neither prudent nor sustainable. What we need are more leaders
who understand the urgent need to transform government to better position our
country for the future.
It is time to ask a series of simple but profound questions: What is the proper
role of the federal government in the twenty-first century? How should it be or-
ganized? Who should do the related work? How should we define and measure
success? How much will government cost? How should we pay for government?
In my view, we need nothing less than a top-to-bottom review of programs and
policies to determine which of them remain priorities, which need to be overhauled
or combined, and which have outlived their usefulness.
Overall government transformation may take a generation or more to complete.
Success will take the combined and sustained efforts of elected, appointed, and
career officials for a long period of time.
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