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Political Leadership

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From one point of view, all organisations include a political dimension, in that those who lead, work for, manage, govern and contract to organisations have to deal with diverse and sometimes competing interests, with individuals and groups sometimes vying for power and influence and sometimes collaborating with others to achieve outcomes (Hartley and Fletcher 2008). This is politics with a small ‘p’.

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  1. Manchester Business School, UK

    Stephen Brookes (Senior Fellow in Public Policy and Management) (Senior Fellow in Public Policy and Management)

  2. Institute of Governance and Public Management, Warwick Business School, UK

    Keith Grint (Professor of Public Leadership & Management) (Professor of Public Leadership & Management)

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Hartley, J. (2010). Political Leadership. In: Brookes, S., Grint, K. (eds) The New Public Leadership Challenge. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230277953_9

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