Leadership in agriculture [electronic resource] : case studies for a new generation / John Patrick Jordan ... [et al.].

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.

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