Understanding culture from within : culture and context do matter -- Environmental pressures, challenges, and opportunities -- Roles of the Palestinian executive -- Leadership styles of Palestinian leaders -- On performance and motivation -- Ingredients for successful leadership -- Advice to...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I: Setting the Frame -- 1. Values in Leadership -- 2. To Lead or Mislead? -- 3. The Roots of Authority -- Part II: Leading with Authority -- 4. Mobilizing Adaptive Work -- 5. Applying Power -- 6. On a Razor's Edge -- 7. Falling off the Edge...

The classical ideal of the leader -- Plato -- Thomas Aquinas -- Conclusion : fictions and implicit theories -- The classical ideal in republics -- Aristotle -- Niccolo Machiavelli -- James Harrington -- The implicit theories of the classical republicans -- Toward a new implicit theory and a new...