Finding the Best and the Brightest: A Guide to Recruiting, Selecting, and Retaining Effective Leaders

Finding the Best and Brightest proposes an approach to choosing leaders based on a set of criteria designed to align individual qualities with organizational or institutional goals. Peg Thoms challenges the popular trend in theory and practice toward “transformational” or “visionary” leadership, arguing instead that leadership must be developed in context; many organizations, for example, don’t need visionaries as much as they need “operational” leaders, … [ Read more ]