LEADERSHIP

IN PUBLIC
ORGANIZATIO
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Leadership
Leadership
 Today’s Society
1. Highly turbulent, subject to sudden
and dramatic shifts;
2. Highly independent, requiring
cooperation across many sectors; and
3. Greatly in need of creative and
imaginative solutions to the problem
facing us.
We need to understand how
leadership has been studied and
practiced in the past to understand
the context in which modern
discussions of leadership are
taking place.
Leadership is changing in many
ways, and we should be attentive
to those changes.
Leader was the one who
established the vision of the
group, designed ways of
achieving that vision, and inspired
or coerced others into helping to
achieve that vision.