Acknowledgments ix

Introduction xv

Part One: About Public Allies and the Concept That Everyone Leads 1

1. Coming to the Conviction That Everyone Leads 3

2. My Leadership Journey 35

3. The Tradition and Future of the Concept That Everyone Leads 63

4. The Responsibility of Leadership 91

Part Two: The Five Core Public Allies Leadership Values 121

5. Recognizing and Mobilizing All of a Community’s Assets 123

6. Connecting Across Cultures 155

7. Facilitating Collaborative Action 187

8. Continuously Learning and Improving 213

9. Being Accountable to Ourselves and Others 243

Afterword 269

Notes 271

The Author 289

Public Allies 291

Index 295