Here are several articles on leadership topics pulled from various local government resources to start off your work week. "Leadership Reading to Start Your Week" will point you to articles on leadership, management, women in local government, career stage advice, and more.

state and local's innovation challenges

From govloop, written by mariah bastin

"Each state has its own agenda, priorities, initiatives, and challenges, but what all states can agree on is the need for innovation. But it’s not easy as budgets and resources continue to shrink and employees find the need to adapt to new technologies. Even thinking about innovation can be an uphill battle for state and local governments."

Public Leadership and the Gift of Time Well Spent

From governing, written by feather o'connor houstoun

"It's hard to overestimate the intrinsic value of sustained leadership. Sometimes its value hides in plain sight: We wonder why successive waves of leaders and approaches to public problems rarely achieve desired results, but we rarely stop to consider what any departed leadership team might have accomplished if it had remained for four or five more years."

On Leadership: Actually meeting the goals

from L.A. Times, written by tom fox

"Because we just finished the college football bowl season, the first book you may want to pick up is, "Above the Line: Lessons in Leadership and Life from a Championship Season," by Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer and Wayne Coffey. Meyer breaks the mold of cliché-riddled leadership books by offering rock-solid principles on motivation, team building and empowerment as well as behind-the-scenes details about how he has built winning football programs at multiple schools and become a much better leader in the process."

How does a humble leader lead without becoming a door mat?

from rapid start leadership, written by ken downer

" There’s no shortage of commentary on blogs and in book about how a good leader is a humble leader.  In his ground-breaking book Good to Great, Jim Collins found that the leaders of the very few greatest companies were without exception very humble men."

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