Drawn to Challenge: Stories of creative leadership in the public interest (with doodles)

Drawing from his experiences as a lawyer, municipal official, and foundation president, Rip Rapson offers two dozen stories of leadership across three decades of civic service. Ranging in weight, complexity, and consequence, the chapters illuminate the rich and expansive potential of principled leadership to improve the ebbs and flows, the rhythms, the contours of contemporary life.

Threaded through the accounts is the recognition that a willingness — indeed, a readiness — to adjust, refashi...