A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
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_INFO:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2016.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
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:
GEOGRAPHIC_TERM:
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. |
BIBSUMMARY:
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.