USEFUL BOOKS AND ARTICLES ABOUT

PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP

The books and articles listed here are chosen for providing valuable ideas about managing and leading in the public sector. It is an eclectic set of books, some used as textbooks in graduate courses in public administration, others are biographies of presidents and other leaders. Many of the articles are by practitioners and leading management academicians, and are used by Mr. Stahl in his coaching practice.

BOOKS

Steven Goldsmith and William D. Eggers, Governing by Network, The New Shape of the Public Sector, Brookings Institution Press, 2004.

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals, The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Simon & Schuster, 2005.

Harry Hatry, Performance Measurement: Getting Results, Urban Institute Press, 1999.

Daniel Mazmanian and Paul Sabatier, Implementation and Public Policy, University Press of America, 1989

David McCullough, Truman, Simon & Schuster, 1992.

Mark H. Moore, Creating Public Value: Strategic Management in the Public Sector, Harvard University Press, 1995.

Mark H. Moore, Recognizing Public Value, Harvard University Press, 2013.

Samantha Power, Chasing the Flame, Sergio Vieira DeMello and the Fight to Save the World, Penguin Press, 2008.

Richard Reeves, President Kennedy, Profile of Power, Simon & Schuster, 1993.

Robert Reich, The Power of Public Ideas, Harvard University Press, 1988.

Malcom K. Sparrow, The Regulatory Craft, Controlling Risks, Solving Problems & Managing Compliance, Brookings Press, 2000.

Malcolm K. Sparrow, The Character of Harms, Operational Challenges in Control, Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Evan Thomas, Robert Kennedy, His Life, Simon & Schuster, 2000.

The Road to Character, David Brooks, Random House LLC, New York, 2015.

To Bless the Space Between Us; A Book of Blessings, John O’Donohue, Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, 2008.

ARTICLES

Susan David and Christina Congleton, “Emotional Agility,” (How effective leaders manage their negative thoughts and feelings), Harvard Business Review, November 2013.

Peter Drucker, “Managing Oneself,” Harvard Business Review, January 2005.

Daniel Goleman, “What Makes a Leader?” Harvard Business Review, January 2004.

Daniel Goleman, “The Focused Leader,” (How efffective leaders direct their own—and their organizations’—attention), Harvard Business Review, December 2013.

Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones, “Creating the Best Workplace on Earth” (What employees really require to be their most productive), Harvard Business Review, May 2013.

Robert Huckman and Bradley Staats, “The Hidden Benefits of Keeping Teams Intact,” Harvard Business Review, December 2013.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, “Zoom In, Zoom Out,” Harvard Business Review, March 2011.

Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey, “The Reason People Won’t Change,” Harvard Business Review, November 2001.

Ellen Langer, “Mindfulness in the Age of Complexity,” Harvard Business Review, March 2014.

Manfres F.R. Kets de Vries, Coaching the Toxic Leader (Four pathologies that can hobble an executive and bring misery to the workplace), Harvard Business Review, April 2014.

Gail McGovern, “Lead from the Heart,” Harvard Business Review, March 2014.

Ram Nidumolu, et.al, “The Collaboration Imperative,” Harvard Business Review, April 2014

Alex “Sandy” Pentland, “Beyond the Echo Chamber,” (When making decisions, seek ideas from diverse sources and test them with a wide network of contacts.) Harvard Business Review, November 2013.

David Rooke and William R. Torbert, “Seven Transformations of Leadership,” Harvard Business Review, April 2005.

Michael Stahl, “New Imperatives for Public Managers,” The Public Manager, Volume 38, No. 1, Spring 2009.

Michael D. Watkins, “How Managers Become Leaders,” Harvard Business Review, June 2012.

Joseph Wholley, “Performance-Based Management,” Public Productivity and Management Review, Vol 22, No. 3, March 1999.

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