Strategic leadership in a public sector organisation - the Walsh and Ryan Eras in an Foras Taluntais
The article examines the exercise of strategic leadership in a public sector agency over the organisation's thirty-year history. It compares and contrasts the leadership approaches of the two men who led the organisation during that time. It examines how their different approaches to direction setting and organisation design reflected their different operating styles and personas. It also shows how these differences alone are not sufficient to explain the difference in the impact that each man had on the development of the organisation. The impact of their leadership can be fully appreciated only in the light of the historical challenges that eah faced, in different circumstances and at different stages i