A New public leadership challenge? -- Central government reform and leadership -- Healthcare reform and leadership -- Education reform and school leadership -- Policing, new public management and legitimacy -- Local government reform and political leadership -- Guns or gantt charts? - the leadership challenge for UK defence -- What do we expect of public leaders? -- Political leadership -- Telling the story of place: the role of community leadership -- Wicked problems and clumsy solutions: the role of leadership -- Knowledge and capabilities for leadership across the whole public service system -- The challenge of change for public sector leaders -- Testing adaptive leadership theory in practice: the policing of the drumcree demonstration in northern lreland -- Leadership of change narratives: an alternative voice -- Section 17 crime and disorder act 1998: a missed opportunity for public leadership? -- Partnerships: rhetoric or reality? -- The challenge for public leadership arising from mixed modes of governance -- Challenge of leadership for the third sector -- Can public leadership be evaluated? -- Epilogue reform, realisation and restoration: public leadership and innovation in government

1. Leadership