Managing Local Government: Cases in Effectiveness: The Professional Local Government Manager: Leadership Style: Managing without Fear or Favor focuses on the challenges of changing a growing suburban community's form of government. In Fargo, with no professional manager in place, each board member was responsible for a municipal department and had broad decision-making authority regarding its operations. This e-book features the adoption of a commission-manager form of government with a code of ethics in a new home-rule charter.