Publications
This section offers a selection of publications related to capacity development.
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Jul 2006This international journal of political, social and behavioral science brings together a focus on leadership for scholars, consultants, managers, executives and administrators, as well as university faculty members who teach leadership as a course. It provides timely publication of leadership r...
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A provocative examination of the essential and widely misunderstood – personality type of today’s most innovative leaders. Maccoby proposes a new paradigm of modern leadership and zeros in on the narcissistic personality. Challenging prevailing leadership theories, he argues that today’s most i...
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According to the current wisdom, managers are principally administrators—they write business plans, set budgets and monitor progress. Leaders on the other hand, get organizations and people to change. That’s true, as far as it goes, but there is a more useful distinction between management and...
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Hands-on learning is always more effective than lectures or Socratic interrogation alone, even when combined with the effective use of well-conceived cases. How to introduce sustained hands-on learning into the graduate policy classroom can prove challenging, especially given students’ competin...
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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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Jul 2006Poor leadership has been the depressing norm in Africa 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. Africa has long been saddled with poor, even malevolent, leadership: predatory kleptocrat...
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Economic growth within countries varies sharply across decades. This paper examines one explanation for these sustained shifts in growth – changes in the national leader. We find that leaders matter, particularly in autocratic settings. Moreover, the death of autocrats appears to lead towards i...
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Traditional approaches to leadership development have concentrated on training individuals in new knowledge and skills. The impact of this kind of approach is unclear. This Note suggests an alternative approach which occurred to me during research carried out amongst civil society leaders in Ma...
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OECD-DAC Joint Venture on Managing for Development Results OECD, MfDR Joint Venture, March 2006. ‘Managing for Development Results (MfDR) is a management strategy focused on development performance and on sustainable improvements in country outcomes. It provides a coherent framework for develo...
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FAO. This toolkit provides a wide range of educational materials and other resources designed for use by rural teachers, instructors, trainers, parents, researchers, extensionists and others involved in formal and non-formal education for rural people. Most of these resources are available onli...