Retrofitting Public Leadership

This book has been about ‘understanding’ public leadership. One of its take-home lessons is that the challenges, shape and style of public leadership will vary as a function of (changes in) the contexts in which it operates. In the final chapter I get into a helicopter, and take a bird’s-eye view of the changing context in which contemporary public leadership is unfolding. With these contextual changes in mind, I also survey the landscape of public leadership discourse and offer both a critical account of where we stand today and where we should be heading tomorrow.