Although the subject of "leadership" is a hot topic, it has never attracted much attention in the public sector. Searching for Leadership is the first book to examine the evolving role and leadership of the highest-ranking public servant in Ottawa or in any of Canada's Provinces and Territories,...

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 fiction -- A...