Publications
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In this article, Michael Maccoby looks at the distinction between management and leadership, which in his view can be defined as follows: management is a function that must be exercised in any business, while leadership is a relationship between...
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This third and final volume in a series on capacity development (published by UNDP) examines the different challenges related to capacity development.
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Poor leadership has been a depressing reality in many African countries for decades. But as a bold new initiative by a group of past and present African leaders takes off, good governance may finally come to the continent.
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Robert Mugabe’s misrule in Zimbabwe is a particularly grotesque chapter of an old, old story: after a promising start, an African leader descends into brutal tyranny. Why do so many African leaders go so terribly wrong? And will a new generation of African follow Mandela’s model instead?
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"Throughout history, narcissists have always emerged to inspire people and to shape the future. When military, religious, and political arenas dominated society, it was figures such as Napoléon Bonaparte, Mahatma Ghandi, or Franklin Delano...
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This book is about how some of the most successful Asian NGOs are managed. It deals with issues of growth, leadership and context, and questions the usefulness of Western management doctrine.
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This book is a collection of essays written in honour of Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere on the occasion of his 75th Birthday. They were presented at a conference at the University of Dar Salaam which brought together academics, political activists, c...
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This paper - presented at the 2000 African Development Forum - assesses the demands made by the HIV/AIDS pandemic on leadership in Africa, and examines the vision, commitment and leadership needed to combat it, which include, openness, tolerance...
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This paper presents the findings of a joint research programme of CORAT Africa in Kenya, INTRAC in Malawi and the Community Development Resource Network (CDRN) in Uganda on the challenges confronting African civil society leaders.
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Research carried out amongst civil society leaders in Malawi brought out similarities between the behavioural change processes that leaders went through and some key elements of the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) Twelve-Step process.