TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jordan,John Patrick
TI  - Leadership in agriculture: case studies for a new generation 
T2  - AgriLife Research and Extension Service series
SN  - 9781603449618
AV  - S441 .L433 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - College Station
PB  - Texas A&M University Press
KW  - Agricultural administration
KW  - United States
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Leadership
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
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