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Although the extraordinary leadership that stimulated European recovery efforts in the late 1940s and early 1950s is now widely celebrated as a model for international development assistance, the role of leadership in development is too often taken for granted. Rondinelli and Heffron argue persuasively that leadership is the hallmark of almost every successful effort at international development since the late 1940s, and that its absence is the underlying cause of most development failures. """"Leadership for Development"""" examines fundamental issues: the tools leaders use to achieve development goals; how culture and interdependence among governments and organizations affects leadership styles; where leaders get their advice from - experts, non-experts, academic or non-academic elites - and if it matters; whether transformational or transactional leadership styles are more effective; and, the lessons that can be drawn from examining the traits of successful leaders. Focusing largely on the Pacific Basin region and Latin America, the book offers valuable case studies for development practitioners looking to increase their effectiveness in a highly interdependent global society.

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"""Advanced thinking by leading experts on the application of both transactional leadership and transforming leadership to vital and demanding questions of global development. Highly recommended"" ""Leadership in development takes many forms ranging from the role of government leadership to leadership in organizations ranging from aid agencies to NGOs. While there are many studies attempting to explain the successes and failures of developing countries in political and economic terms, there are relatively few that have looked at the role of leadership itself. This book of essays by prominent people in the development field and edited by John Heffron and the late Dennis Rondinelli is a valuable contribution toward filling that gap."" Leadership has long been a kind of 'black box' for the social sciences, its analysis hampered with ambiguity and permeated by tautology. This book provides extensive empirical material and many insights on contemporary 'leadership for development' which should help both academics and practitioners get a better grasp on the all-too-obviously important elements of leadership at a time when this phenomenon has become ever more pivotal."

Leadership has long been a kind of 'black box' for the social sciences, its analysis hampered with ambiguity and permeated by tautology. This book provides extensive empirical material and many insights on contemporary 'leadership for development' which should help both academics and practitioners get a better grasp on the all-too-obviously important elements of leadership at a time when this phenomenon has become ever more pivotal. Leadership in development takes many forms ranging from the role of government leadership to leadership in organizations ranging from aid agencies to NGOs. While there are many studies attempting to explain the successes and failures of developing countries in political and economic terms, there are relatively few that have looked at the role of leadership itself. This book of essays by prominent people in the development field and edited by John Heffron and the late Dennis Rondinelli is a valuable contribution toward filling that gap. Advanced thinking by leading experts on the application of both transactional leadership and transforming leadership to vital and demanding questions of global development. Highly recommended

Advanced thinking by leading experts on the application of both transactional leadership and transforming leadership to vital and demanding questions of global development. Highly recommended

Advanced thinking by leading experts on the application of both transactional leadership and transforming leadership to vital and demanding questions of global development. Highly recommended Leadership in development takes many forms ranging from the role of government leadership to leadership in organizations ranging from aid agencies to NGOs. While there are many studies attempting to explain the successes and failures of developing countries in political and economic terms, there are relatively few that have looked at the role of leadership itself. This book of essays by prominent people in the development field and edited by John Heffron and the late Dennis Rondinelli is a valuable contribution toward filling that gap. Leadership has long been a kind of 'black box' for the social sciences, its analysis hampered with ambiguity and permeated by tautology. This book provides extensive empirical material and many insights on contemporary 'leadership for development' which should help both academics and practitioners get a better grasp on the all-too-obviously important elements of leadership at a time when this phenomenon has become ever more pivotal.

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Dennis A. Rondinelli is senior research scholar at Duke University's Center for International Development, as well as director of the Pacific Basin Research Center at Soka University of America. John M. Heffron is professor of history at Soka University of America and associate director of the Pacific Basin Research Center.

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