The forces of globalization are shifting our world away from hierarchy and command and control toward one of collaboration and networks. This volume explores what the shift looks like and also offers guidance on what it should look like. It focuses on the role of "career leaders" - those in public service - who are agents of change.

1: The Transformation of Public Leadership; I: Politics, Administration, and Public Leadership; 2: Transformational Leadership; 3: Public Leadership as Gardening; 4: Twenty-First-Century Career Leaders; 5: Leadership by Top Administrators in a Changing World; II: Leadership Frames; 6: Trans-leadership; 7: The Changing Leadership Landscape A Military Perspective; 8: Leading at the Edge of Chaos; 9: Transformational Stewardship Leading Public-Sector Change; III: Leadership and Collaboration; 10: Leadership for the Common Good; 11: Creating Public Value Using Managed Networks; 12: Consensus Building and Leadership; 13: The Challenge of Leading through Networks; IV: Leading Change in Different Contexts; 14: Leadership and Management in Local Government; 15: Four-Frame Leadership in Authentic, Results-oriented Management Reform; 16: Leadership Strategies for Large-scale IT Implementations in Government; 17: Government's New Breed of Change Agents; 18: Leadership and Ethics in Decision Making by Public Managers