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Understanding the Context of Public Leadership
The term leadership is so nebulous that no-one has ever to to it and everyone has tried to to define it it As Stogdill (1974:259) are as as definitions of leadership as as there are persons to to define the The aim of this booklet is is help you you to understand how your your role as a a a a a a a a a a a a leader can play a a a a a a a a a a a a part in in shaping your your organization The booklet explores the context of public leadership namely those issues or or or concerns that you have no no direct control over and thus no no influence 3 This begins with the the purpose of the the organisation and how it it it interacts with the wider world in in in which
it it operates It determines how to develop the the mechanisms that improve the the the the purpose's influence on on the the the the context and and the the the the outcomes that the the the organizational vision demands It is is thus important to understand the language of public interest leadership Leadership
is a a a a value laden concept both in terms of its context (the values that we hold dear as individuals) its mechanisms in in in encouraging shared values (those that we align within and across organisations in in in supporting the the the patient and and the the the public) and and the the the overall shared value value as as an an an outcome (measurable public value) The glue that that that binds these values is is that that that of relationships There is is is nothing that that that that we do do within the organisation that that does not involve relationships Literature is characterized by
a a a a a a a a plethora of definitions and correspondingly the actual practice of leadership is is characterised by
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