ABSTRACT: A good theory of public trust should unite personal integrity, moral com-mitments, legal authority, and accountability and effectiveness. This article presents leav-ing a legacy as an approach to organize managers ’ and leaders ’ reflection. This approach unites personal search for meaning with an organizational focus on mission. It connects the individual’s preoccupation with self-worth and significance with organiza-tional results. It embeds leaders in an historical setting, linking their inheritance from the past and their obligations to the future. Finally, thinking of a legacy can guide individu-als to a less controlling leadership style, supporting people and institutions capable of adaptation and growth. While legacy does not capture all aspects of managerial leader-ship, it maps a broad and rich understanding of leadership and individuality linked to trusteeship. Legacy unites many of the best aspects of the most common normative expla-nations of trusteeship. And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Abstract The venerable but amorphous concept of stewardship has lately gained prominence in discussions of public policy and management and is sometimes offered as a “strategy ” with a distinctive potential to mobilize effective public leadership in the service of broad social missions. In this article we explore how stewardship may be useful to the theory and practice of mental health policy, and, reciprocally, how examples from mental health policy may elucidate the dynamics of stewardship. After examining its key political ingredients — authority, advocacy, and analysis — we dis-cuss the practical challenges in moving stewardship from moral inspiration to insti-tutional reality. [O]ne learned to adapt oneself to reality, and a person with a trained mind would finally end up limiting himself to his specialty and spend the rest of his life convinced that the whole of life should perhaps be different, but there was no point in thinking about it... Suddenly Ulrich saw the whole thing in the comical light of the question whether, given that there was certainly an abundance of mind around, the only thing wrong was that mind itself was devoid of mind. — Robert Musil, The Man without Qualities Any casual peruser of the daily papers can see that stewardship covers a lot of ground — from national economies to human kidneys and much in between. For example, in Great Britain, Gordon Brown’s 2007 budget did “little to change one’s verdict on his stewardship of the.... economy” (Brittan 2007: 11). On kidneys available for transplants, physician Alan Leichtman laments that “waiting time is arbitrary.... It’s a real shame that

Four themes in a changing world Backdrop: four decades of experience

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