By Joseph A. Raelin.This book presents a new paradigm of leadership that is based on mutual-rather than heroic and solitary-leadership. Raelin shows that leadership-reimagined in a mutually inclusive way – can help to solve many of the problems encountered in work life today. While many have suggested that leaders consult with their followers, or that leaders learn to step aside to let others take the reins, Raelin advocates a truly mutual model that incorporates everyone in leadership – that transforms leadership from being an individual property into a leaderful practice.

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The plea for policy initiatives to be based on hard evidence and concrete research has produced a new policy development model from the Cabinet Office. One of the aims of the model is to encourage excellence in policy, research, and evaluation design. The demonstration project will test a new strategy for improving job retention and advancement for low-wage workers. It represents a potentially important step in strengthening the evolving welfare-to-work and anti-poverty policies.The project differs from the traditional approach because there are no plans at the outset to roll out the policy on a national scale before results of the evaluation are known. Also the effectiveness of the intervention will be tested as a large-scale, multi-site, random assignment social experiment. This will test whether the cutting-edge, but unproven policy innovation, can make a useful contribution to devising effective social policy.

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The Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health, set up in January 2003, is now deciding which of the 600 not for profit organizations who want to get involved should set up and run stakeholder forums. Different types of pilot patient and public involvement forums are being set up to find out which models work best. Laura McMurtrie, Chief Executive for the Commission said: “I am delighted at the level of response the Commission has received from groups expressing an interest in becoming involved in supporting and recruiting the PPI Forums. It confirms the widespread intention of many parts of the community and voluntary sectors to be part of the new vision.The Commission and the new forums are essential parts of the NHS ten year plan which puts greater public involvement at the heart of the modernisation agenda. The Commission’s role is to establish a new system of patient and public involvement in health for England that will give the public a voice in the decisions that affect their health and an influence in wider health issues. It aims to promote involvement in health from all parts of the community working with groups including those already involved in health care, government and non government organisations and the voluntary sector.

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