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Central Government Reform and Leadership

In: The New Public Leadership Challenge

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  • Colin Talbot

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The above representative quotation (Chapman), from a senior British civil servant, shows that until quite recently the dominant view amongst this group was ‘we don’t do leadership’. Indeed, as the now famous ‘Next Steps’ review was to reveal only four years later, most senior civil servants didn’t even ‘do’ management, let alone leadership (Jenkins, Caines and Jackson 1988) — a problem that had been identified as early as the Fulton Review of 1968 (Fulton Committee 1968).

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  • Colin Talbot, 2010. "Central Government Reform and Leadership," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Stephen Brookes & Keith Grint (ed.), The New Public Leadership Challenge, chapter 2, pages 19-32, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-27795-3_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230277953_2
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    1. Mehedi Masud & Md. Rakib Hossain, 2021. "Interpreting lived experiences: The dilemmas of public sector leaders," Public Administration & Development, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 41(4), pages 180-190, October.

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