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    The Role of Canadian City Managers
    In Their Own Words

    Michael Fenn (Edited by), Gordon McIntosh (Edited by), David Siegel (Edited by)

    9781487548865

    Hardback, published 18 May 2023

    376 pages, 8 b&w figures, 2 b&w tables
    23.5 x 15.6 x 2.4 cm, 0.59 kg

    Local government has rapidly become both more important and more complex and the quality of municipal management is becoming more significant every day as local governments deal with a vast array of organizational and community challenges.

    The Role of Canadian City Managers brings together experienced city managers and municipal chief administrative officers (CAOs) across Canada to analyse the daily issues that they face. Each chapter deals with a particular issue or challenge, such as council/staff relations, collaborative initiatives, and crisis readiness. The book contributes to the literature on local government and public administration by providing insights from the "real time" lived experiences of city managers, spoken in their own words. The book also speculates about the contemporary leadership role of the city manager and the future of the city management profession.

    The Role of Canadian City Managers is a useful resource for scholars and students of local government and public administration, as well as public servants who work with or aspire to leadership roles within local government.

    Introduction

    1. The City Management Profession: More than a Job
    Janice Baker

    2. Aspirational Incrementalism: Developing a Vision
    Bruce Macgregor and David Szwarc

    3. Building Support for Strategic Planning and Priorities
    Chris MacPherson

    4. Using Your First 100 Days Strategically
    Patrick Moyle and Hassaan Basit

    5. The Challenge of Leading Up: Strategic Alignment with Council
    Jeff Fielding and Kate Graham

    6. Council/Staff Relations: Forward Motion or Spinning Wheels?
    Tammy Crowder

    7. The Most Important Relationship in Local Government: Mayor and City Manager
    Bill Given

    8. City Manager and Mayor: Independent or Partners?
    Carl Zehr

    9. What Does Diversity-Inclusion Look Like in Action?
    Shirley Hoy

    10. Diversity from Bottom to Top: The City Manager and Workforce Diversity
    Sheila Bassi-Kellett

    11. Indigenous and Municipal Relationships: The Art of Collaboration
    Ann Mitchell

    12. The Gift of Clarity and the Freedom to Innovate
    Robert Earl

    13. Rowers, Coasters, and Drillers: How Team-Building Can Improve Your Crew
    John Leeburn

    14. Five Strategies for Successful Municipal Intergovernmental Relations
    John E. Fleming

    15. Leading Beyond: Building Relationships for Intergovernmental Collaboration
    Gail Stephens and Zack Taylor

    16. Resilience in a Crisis: Towards an "Antifragile" Organization – The Case of Gatineau
    Marie-Hélène Lajoie and Pierre Prévost

    17. Managing during a Crisis: Lessons from Fort McMurray
    Jamie Doyle and Don Lidstone

    18. Building Partnerships: Hard Work, Patience, Commitment, Adaptation, and Opportunities
    Jag Sharma

    19. Nurturing the Community’s Soul Source
    Linda Rapp

    20. Community Development: Navigating the Rocky Shoals of Community Change
    Robert Buchan

    21. From Dreams of Being a Rock-and-Roll Drummer to City Manager
    David Calder

    22. A City Manager’s Career Journey
    John Burke

    23. Mentoring: Building the Next Generation of Municipal Professionals
    Tony Haddad, Gerard Lewis, and Jim Pine

    24. The Canadian City Manager
    Michael Fenn, Gordon McIntosh, and David Siegel

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