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Leadership in Agriculture: Case Studies for a New Generation
2014, Texas A&M University Press
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Leadership in agriculture: case studies for a new generation
2013, Texas A&M University Press
in English
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1603449418 9781603449410
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Table of Contents
Leadership in the agricultural environment
Character: the bedrock of leaders and leadership
Case studies: How leadership can make a difference
Facing down nature: how a regional lab survived Hurricane Katrina (addressing physical crises)
Exerting ag leadership in distributed geographic locations (coordinating dispersed units within one organization)
Closing and relocating facilities and terminating programs (leadership challenges with organizational restructuring)
National Research Initiative: creating a shared leadership vision (bringing about a new solution)
Battling Formosan subterranean termites (forging a new approach)
Gathering of the agricultural clan (bringing leaders together without central authority)
Monsanto: how one company saw the future and transformed to seize it (leadership's role in a significant change)
Enhancing leadership in the state agricultural experiment stations (cultivating new leadership)
Development of the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) (enhancing a better understanding of agricultural science and technology)
Lessons learned from case studies
Making leadership work for you
Appendixes: How does the scientific agricultural system work?
Appendix A. The land-grant system: a key to America's dream? how does it function?
Appendix B. The USDA's Agricultural Research Service: focus on national and international issues
Appendix C. The industrial approach to research: diverse foci linked to industrial economic effects
Notes.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.