Challenges for New Leadership Teams in Fragile States

In this brief, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of the Republic of Liberia, shares lessons learned from her experience in leading a post-conflict country. She emphasizes the importance of taking a broader view of the national leadership system whil...

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Main Author:	Johnson-Sirleaf, Ellen
Format:	Brief
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ACCOUNTABILITY AUTHORITY BASIC SERVICES BEST PRACTICES COMPETENCE CONFLICT CORRUPTION CRIMES DEMOCRACY DEVELOPMENT PROCESS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ETHICS GENDER GLOBAL GOVERNANCE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INTEGRITY LEADERSHIP LEARNING LEARNING PROCESS LED MINISTER RULE OF LAW SOCIETY TRAITS OF LEADERSHIP WORK ETHICS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/05/8088863/challenges-new-leadership-teams-fragile-states http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9574

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spelling	okr-10986-95742021-04-23T14:02:46Z Challenges for New Leadership Teams in Fragile States Johnson-Sirleaf, Ellen ACCOUNTABILITY AUTHORITY BASIC SERVICES BEST PRACTICES COMPETENCE CONFLICT CORRUPTION CRIMES DEMOCRACY DEVELOPMENT PROCESS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ETHICS GENDER GLOBAL GOVERNANCE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INTEGRITY LEADERSHIP LEARNING LEARNING PROCESS LED MINISTER RULE OF LAW SOCIETY TRAITS OF LEADERSHIP WORK ETHICS In this brief, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of the Republic of Liberia, shares lessons learned from her experience in leading a post-conflict country. She emphasizes the importance of taking a broader view of the national leadership system while building national leadership capacities and cautions against adopting a one size fits all approach. Drawing from Liberia's recent turnaround, she identifies key capacities that need to be developed. Fragile states pose a challenge for good leadership-for renewal and reform. States in the grip of poverty with broken socioeconomic infrastructure and a political culture of impunity, require courageous leadership, one that is unafraid of risks and able to challenge itself to be innovative and look toward the future. She points out that consciousness of ethics forces the setting of standards and requires leaders to lead by good example, particularly when it comes to demonstrating and imparting honesty, tolerance, participatory democracy, work ethics, and understanding. 2012-08-13T08:59:56Z 2012-08-13T08:59:56Z 2007-05 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/05/8088863/challenges-new-leadership-teams-fragile-states http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9574 English Capacity Development Briefs; No. 21 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research Africa Liberia
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description	In this brief, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of the Republic of Liberia, shares lessons learned from her experience in leading a post-conflict country. She emphasizes the importance of taking a broader view of the national leadership system while building national leadership capacities and cautions against adopting a one size fits all approach. Drawing from Liberia's recent turnaround, she identifies key capacities that need to be developed. Fragile states pose a challenge for good leadership-for renewal and reform. States in the grip of poverty with broken socioeconomic infrastructure and a political culture of impunity, require courageous leadership, one that is unafraid of risks and able to challenge itself to be innovative and look toward the future. She points out that consciousness of ethics forces the setting of standards and requires leaders to lead by good example, particularly when it comes to demonstrating and imparting honesty, tolerance, participatory democracy, work ethics, and understanding.
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title	Challenges for New Leadership Teams in Fragile States
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