TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jordan,John Patrick
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Leadership in agriculture: case studies for a new generation 
T2  - AgriLife Research and Extension Service series
SN  - 9781603449618
AV  - S441 .L33 2013
U1  - 630.68 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - College Station
PB  - Texas A&M University Press
KW  - Leadership
KW  - United States
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Agricultural administration
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781603449618/
ER  -