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A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service
Title:
A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service
Author:
Gates, Robert Michael, 1943-
ISBN:
9780307959492
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2016.
Physical Description:
239 p. ; 25 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Abstract:
Why bureaucracies so often fail us -- Where you want to go: "the vision thing" -- Formulating a strategy -- Techniques for implementing change -- It's always about people -- Stakeholders: friends and foes -- The agent of change: "mirror, mirror on the wall" -- Money, money, money: reforming in scarce times -- Reform: the never-ending story -- A flaming heart.
Personal Subject:
Subject:
Cabinet officers -- United States -- Biography.
Organizational change -- United States.
Leadership -- United States.
Public administration -- United States -- Anecdotes.
Administrative agencies -- United States -- Reorganization.
United States -- Politics and government.
Gates, Robert Michael, 1943-
United States. Department of Defense -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
Texas A & M University System -- Biography.
Summary:
Why bureaucracies so often fail us -- Where you want to go: "the vision thing" -- Formulating a strategy -- Techniques for implementing change -- It's always about people -- Stakeholders: friends and foes -- The agent of change: "mirror, mirror on the wall" -- Money, money, money: reforming in scarce times -- Reform: the never-ending story -- A flaming heart.