New Public Leadership presents a comprehensive, integrated, and practical leadership framework, grounded in the uniqueness of public legal missions, culture, history and values.

Section 1. Foundations of Public Service Leadership 1. Public Service Leadership: Discovering Opportunities to Make a Difference from Where We Sit 2. Leadership Theory and Action 3. Leadership in Organizations 4. Polity Leadership 5. The Moral Basis of Public Service Leadership 6. Thinking in Time: Using Our Institutional Legacies to Improve the Public Good Section 2. Identifying Leadership Opportunities: "Sizing Up" Possible Leadership Action 7. Sizing Up the Leadership Context: Drivers of Change in the 21st Century 8. The Normal v. The New Normal and the Rise of Wicked Problems: Leadership for Emergence 9. EMERGE Leadership: "Sizing Up" Challenges and Opportunities Section 3. Taking Leadership Action 10. Leading in Communities from Where We Sit: Power, Authority, Networks and Conciliatory Practices 11. EMERGE Leadership: "Taking Action" to Realize the Vision Section 4. Building, Retaining, and Renewing Public Trust Through Time 12. Prudential Judgment: The Core Virtue for Leading from Where We Sit