Includes bibliographical references and index.

From monopoly to competition : challenges for leaders in the deregulated investor-owned utility industry / R. Kevin McClean -- Reforming Wall Street : challenges for financial leaders in publicly traded firms / L. Keith Whitney and Michael D. Yonker -- Beyond Wall Street : leadership challenges unique to small private companies and entrepreneurial firms / Erik Hoekstra and Scott R. Peterson -- Knowledge management leadership challenges : coping with mental models and operationalizing knowledge management strategy and practice / Tom R. Eucker -- Leadership in a not-for-profit world : a mixed toolbox / Andrea B. Bear and Michael A. Fitzgibbon -- The challenges of interpersonal relationships, employee discipline, and leadership effectiveness in religious nonprofit organizations / Craig Osten -- What the new nonprofit leaders should learn about finance : beyond fund-raising and accounting / Herrington J. Bryce -- Team-based leadership and change in the Christian church / Michael W. Honeycutt and Clay Smith -- Notes from the belly of the beast : leadership challenges in the federal government / Richard F. Cullins -- The achievements and challenges of military leadership / Christopher Taylor -- Leadership challenges in education : improving administrative decision making / Serbrenia J. Sims and Ronald R. Sims -- Leadership challenges in local government : economic development, financial management, and ethical leadership / William I. Sauser, Jr., Lane D. Sauser, and Joe A. Sumners -- Developmental-servant leadership for human resource professionals / Jerry W. Gilley and Ann Gilley -- Engaging people's passion : leadership for the new century / Diana Bilimoria and Lindsey Godwin -- "HR-minded" leadership : five critical areas of focus for contemporary organizational leaders / Scott A. Quatro -- Leaders speak : success and failure in their own words / William J. Mea and Shawn M. Carraher -- Worldview and global leadership / John R. Visser -- What good is this to me? Managerial implications of global leadership research / Marcus W. Dickson and Deanne N. Den Hartog -- New rules for a new century : help for management and leadership in this new global century / Kenneth L. Murrell -- Restoring ethics consciousness to organizations and the workplace : every contemporary leader's challenge / Ronald R. Sims.