The Resource A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service, Robert M. Gates
A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service, Robert M. Gates
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- Summary
- From the former Secretary of Defense and author of the best-selling memoir Duty, a characteristically direct, informed, and urgent assessment of why big institutions are failing us and how smart, committed leadership can effect real improvement regardless of scale. Across the realms of civic and private enterprise alike, bureaucracies vitally impact our security, freedoms, and everyday life. With so much at stake, competence, efficiency, and fiscal prudence are essential, yet Americans know these institutions fall short. Many despair that they are too big and too hard to reform. Robert Gates disagrees. Having led change successfully at three monumental organizations--the CIA, Texas A&M University, and the Department of Defense--he offers us the ultimate insider's look at how major bureaus, organizations, and companies can be transformed, which is by turns heartening and inspiring and always instructive.--Adapted from book jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 239 pages
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780307959492
- Label
- A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service
- Title
- A passion for leadership
- Title remainder
- lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service
- Statement of responsibility
- Robert M. Gates
- Subject
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- Gates, Robert Michael, 1943-
- Leadership
- Organizational change
- Public administration -- Anecdotes
- Texas A & M University System -- Biography
- Administrative agencies -- Reorganization
- United States, Central Intelligence Agency -- Officials and employees -- Biography
- United States, Department of Defense -- Officials and employees -- Biography
- United States -- Politics and government
- Cabinet officers -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- From the former Secretary of Defense and author of the best-selling memoir Duty, a characteristically direct, informed, and urgent assessment of why big institutions are failing us and how smart, committed leadership can effect real improvement regardless of scale. Across the realms of civic and private enterprise alike, bureaucracies vitally impact our security, freedoms, and everyday life. With so much at stake, competence, efficiency, and fiscal prudence are essential, yet Americans know these institutions fall short. Many despair that they are too big and too hard to reform. Robert Gates disagrees. Having led change successfully at three monumental organizations--the CIA, Texas A&M University, and the Department of Defense--he offers us the ultimate insider's look at how major bureaus, organizations, and companies can be transformed, which is by turns heartening and inspiring and always instructive.--Adapted from book jacket
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1943-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gates, Robert Michael
- Dewey number
-
- 352.2/93092
- B
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E897.4.G37
- LC item number
- A3 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Gates, Robert Michael
- Cabinet officers
- Organizational change
- Leadership
- Public administration
- Administrative agencies
- United States
- United States
- Texas A & M University System
- United States
- Label
- A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service, Robert M. Gates
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- ocn918986499
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 239 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307959492
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2015010209
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)918986499
- (OCoLC)918986499
- a1130455
- Label
- A passion for leadership : lessons on change and reform from fifty years of public service, Robert M. Gates
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- ocn918986499
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 239 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307959492
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2015010209
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)918986499
- (OCoLC)918986499
- a1130455
Subject
- Gates, Robert Michael, 1943-
- Leadership
- Organizational change
- Public administration -- Anecdotes
- Texas A & M University System -- Biography
- Administrative agencies -- Reorganization
- United States, Central Intelligence Agency -- Officials and employees -- Biography
- United States, Department of Defense -- Officials and employees -- Biography
- United States -- Politics and government
- Cabinet officers -- Biography
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