The Changing Face of Leadership and Administration

This January 2004 Roundtable session featured a conversation with Robert J. Lamb, Senior Advisor for Policy, Management and Budget, U.S. Department of the Interior, and David Lewis, Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University.

In the public management literature and in seminars and classrooms across the United States, the terms leadership and management are increasingly used interchangeably. This initial Roundtable explored the overall question of whether leadership and management are the same, or whether there are important distinctions in language and practice that must be understood.