Montgomery Van Wart is Professor of Public Administration at California State University, San Bernardino. He has been a distinguished visiting professor at numerous universities around the world. Some of his other books include Business, Society, and Global Governance, 2nd Edition (2022, with Anna Ya Ni), Leadership Across the Globe (2015, with Vipin Gupta), and Building Business-Government Relations (2015, by Anna Ya Ni). He has done extensive training of leaders at all levels of government across the globe.

Pamela S. Medina is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at California State University, San Bernardino. She is an accomplished nonprofit management and public administration scholar and has published articles in Nonprofit Management and Leadership, Administrative Theory & Praxis, and the Journal of Public Affairs Education, among others. This is her first book.

1. Introduction Part I: Theories and Approaches to Leadership 2. Understanding Theories of Leadership and Leadership Styles 3. Early Management, Trait, Stratified Systems, and Transactional Theories of Leadership 4. Charismatic and Transformational Approaches 5. Distributed Approaches to Leadership 6. Ethics-Based Leadership Theories 7. Leadership Approaches Focusing on Influence, Attribution, and a Changing Environment 8. Competency-Based Leadership Approaches 9. Traits That Contribute to Leader Effectiveness Part II: Applied Leadership Competencies 10. Skills That Contribute to Leader Effectiveness 11. Assessments by Leaders and the Goals to Which They Lead 12. Task-Oriented Behaviors 13. People-Oriented Behaviors 14. Organization-Oriented Behaviors 15. Leadership Development and Evaluation