This book seeks to provide some answer about leadership for people to whom leadership may have renewed salience because of crises and awareness of possibility. The book's domain of interest is the arena of public affairs-the nonprofit and public sectors. Leading in most public and nonprofit situations is a big challenge an no one needs to axaggerate difficulties or equate them with recent public crises. Public and nonprofit leaders are confronted by the lights that shine on their work, resource, authority, and power distributions that sometimes set off a free-for-all for influence among stakeholders and hard choices about who wins and who loses.