Abridged List of Resources

Documents on leadership development activities at the World Bank

To learn more about the range of leadership workshops and related interventions supported by the Bank country teams over the last 18 months, read "Update Note on Leadership Capacity Building Interventions, 2005-2006 ". For details on earlier Bank work on leadership in fragile states, see the December 2004 Synthesis Note and individual country cases.

Publications related to leadership development

Authentic Leadership for Sustainable Development.” Selection of quotes and introduction by Patricia Morales.

Business Associations: Building Democracy, Economic Reform Today, Güven Sak.

Carnets Secrets d’une Alternance; Un soldat au coeur de la démocratie, Général Lamine Cissé.

Catalytic Initiatives for Country-Level Peace-Building Strategies: What Are They Accomplishing?” Occasional paper series: What Really Works in Preventing and Rebuilding Failed States, Woodrow Wilson Leadership Project. Looks at recent experiments in synergistic country-level peace-building interventions and explores the degree to which sustained engagement, relationship-building and collaboration can enhance a country's prospects for peace.

Developing leaders? Developing countries?” Henry Mintzberg. Development in Practice, Volume 16, Number 1, February 2006.

Effective Leadership Development. John Adair, 2006. References the Center for Leadership Development's (Alan Gogbashian) application of Adair's Action-Centred Leadership model in Armenia.

Human Development Report 2006: Beyond scarcity; power, poverty and the global water crisis. UNDP, June 2006.

Introduction” section of Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society, by Peter Senge, 2005.

Investment in African Women Entrepreneurs Leverages Economic Growth.” The Honorable Alice M. Dear, Former US Executive Director, African Development Bank (1994-2000.)

Leadership and Reform: A nonlinear process, Manuel Hinds, April 2007

Leadership in Development, 2007 online newsletter and collected resources, published by ECDPM, SNV, UNDP.

Leadership is Global;  Co-Creating a More Humane and Sustainable World , a book initiated by the Global Leadership Network.

Leading through Conflict:  How Successful Leaders Transform Differences into Opportunities , Mark Gerzon,  Harvard Business School Press, 2006. Gerzon calls the philosophy "Mediator" leadership, and he claims it's the "emerging leadership archetype of our era."

Managers not MBAs; A hard look at the soft practice of managing and management development. Henry Mintzberg. Berrett-Koehler, 2004.

"Portrait of a Leader; Fundamental qualities for effecting change." Gabriel Sékaly. Public Sector Management Newsletter, Vol 17, Issue 3, 2006.

The Public Law Chambers in the European Union, Güven Sak.

Real Leadership: Helping People and Organizations Face Their Toughest Challenges. Dean Williams, Berrett-Koehler, 2006

"Rebuilding Peace and State Capacity in War-Torn Burundi," July 2004 Round Table Journal. Provides additional insight into the training process.

Strategy Bites Back; It is a lot more, and less, than you ever imagined. Henry Mintzberg. Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005.

Systems Citizenship: the Leadership Mandate for this Millennium,” Peter Senge (for Leader of the Future II), February 28, 2006. Much of the material in this article is based on P. Senge, The Fifth Discipline, Revised Edition, New York: Doubleday, 2006

"Training Leaders for Peace." 2006 Journal of Democracy. Provides a detailed account of the impact of the Burundi Leadership Training Program, BLTP (established in Burundi under the direction of the Woodrow Wilson Center in 2002), on Burundi's transition to peace.

The Triumph of the Flexible Society: The Connectivity Revolution and Resistance to Change, Manuel Hinds, Praeger, Westport, Connecticut, 2003.

Weaving the Web of Solutions: The Curitiba example

World Development Report 2007: Development and the Next Generation

'You shouldn’t just think of the here and now, but also of the there and then;' An interview with Herman Wijffels.” Harry Kunneman & Henk Manschot. Published in the periodical of the University of Humanistics, Utrecht, The Netherlands.