Leadership in agriculture
Leadership in agriculture case studies for a new generation / [electronic resource] :
John Patrick Jordan ... [et al.].
- 1st ed.
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2013.
- 1 online resource (208 p.)
- AgriLife Research and Extension Service series .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781603449618 1603449612
Leadership--United States--Case studies.
Agricultural administration--United States--Case studies.
Electronic books.
S441 / .L33 2013
630.68
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781603449618 1603449612
Leadership--United States--Case studies.
Agricultural administration--United States--Case studies.
Electronic books.
S441 / .L33 2013
630.68