John Mayne's Contribution to Results-Based Management Thinking: A Leadership Legacy

Abstract

John Mayne wrote extensively on results-based management. While his thinking evolved, some key tenets remained. He emphasized the importance of lead- ership in managing for results . In this article, we elicit his understanding of sound results-based management and the role of leadership. Mayne argued that a salient task for leaders was building and sustaining an evaluative culture, wherein the organization uses and learns from performance information. Th e authors analyzed his recommendations for leaders and grouped them into four diff erent types of lead- ership roles. Th ese roles concern setting a results course of expectations, managing operations, managing change, and managing people and systems.