Mayors in Action: Five Approaches to Urban Governance

by John P. Kotter, Paul R. Lawrence (Other Contributor)

From the table of contents:
Introduction
Current conceptions of the mayor
A new framework
Agenda setting
Network building and maintenance
Accomplishing tasks
Patterns of the identification of five types of mayor
Pattern constructing a model of mayoral behavior
a case study in mayoral behavior
Successful and unsuccessful coalignment behavior
Pattern emergence
Pattern rating the mayor's performance
Implications for social a coalignment model of administration
Implications for mayors
The some disturbing trends.

287 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1974

About the author

John P. Kotter, world-renowned expert on leadership, is the author of many books, including Leading Change, Our Iceberg is Melting, The Heart of Change, and his latest book, That's Not How We Do It Here!. He is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School, and a graduate of MIT and Harvard. He is co-founder of Kotter International, a change management and strategy execution firm that helps organizations engage employees in a movement to drive change and reach sustainable results. He and his wife Nancy live in Boston, Massachusetts.

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