A number of senior leaders explore the practicalities of financial leadership that is needed to tackle the problems that many governments are facing – whether it be to drive through public sector reforms or to tackle increasing government debts and deficits. Finance leaders need to have both a strategic and a detailed understanding of how government works and be effective communicators and influencers to help shape policy and debates. It is therefore important for such leaders to have a combination of soft skills as well as the detailed technical skills.
Our authors give their insights on:
- the importance of having finance professionals as leaders in the public sector;
- what a successful finance professional leader should look like and the specific skills/qualities that they need to have;
- the challenges that finance professional leaders within the public sector face and how they can tackle them;
- how a finance professional leader can make an impact in government so that people listen when they speak; and
- how governments can ensure that they have the right people in place for these leadership positions.
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