Searching for Leadership : : Secretaries to Cabinet in Canada / / ed. by Patrice Dutil.

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 T...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2008
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Leadership in Question
  • 1. Searching for Leadership
  • 2. Clerks and Secretaries to Cabinet: Anatomy of Leadership
  • Part Two: Leadership in Transformation
  • 3. Clerk as Révélateur: A Panoramic View
  • 4. Capacity, Complexity, and Leadership: Secretaries to Cabinet and Ontario's Project of Modernization at the Centre
  • 5. The Secretary to the Cabinet in Saskatchewan: Evolution of the Role, 1944-2006
  • Part Three: Leaders in Action
  • 6. 'Super Diplomat and Super Expediter': Wes Bolstad as Cabinet Secretary in Saskatchewan, 1973-9
  • 7. Leviathan Awakes: Harry Hobbs and the Rise of Alberta
  • 8. Leadership and Province Building: Guy Coulombe in Quebec
  • Conclusion: The Options and Futures of Secretaries to Cabinet
  • Appendix